When you’ve finished creating form fields in the document, you can adjust the position of the form fields manually to make the form layout more professional.

Manually position form fields to your desired position, making the PDF form layout more logical. The positioning operations can be realized by dragging, by using keyboard keys, or with the Cut and Paste commands. By aligning, centering or distributing form fields, you can quickly set their relative positions to one another, or to the page.
 
The Grid tool is also available for users to position form fields at precise points on a page. You can define the grid spacing, color, and position of a grid. The Snap to Grid feature determines whether to have the boundaries of a form field snap to grid lines when you are editing the form field. See Using Grid Layout tool and General Preferences.

To move form fields on PDF pages:

  1. Select one or more form fields that need moving.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Move the pointer inside the selected form field, and drag the field to an approximate areas. To constrain movement to a horizontal or vertical direction, begin dragging, and then press Shift while continuing to drag the selection.
    • Press the arrow keys to stir the selected form field into precise position.
    • Choose Edit > Cut to relocate the form fields to the center of the current page, navigate to the desired location, and then choose Edit > Paste.

To align form fields:

  1. Choose the Select Object Tool PDF Gold select Positioning Form Fields at Tools> Advanced or in the Advanced Toolbar.
  2. Press Shift and select the form fields that you want to align. You must select at least two form fields.
  3. Right-click the field that is to remain stationary, and then choose a command from the Align menu:
    • Left, Right, Top, or Bottom aligns all form fields with the respective border of the anchor form field.
    • Vertically aligns all form fields along the vertical axis of the anchor form field.
    • Horizontally aligns all form fields along the horizontal axis of the anchor form field.

To center form fields:

  1. Choose the Select Object Tool PDF Gold select Positioning Form Fields at Tools> Advanced or in the Advanced Toolbar.
  2. Press Shift and select the form fields that you want to center.
  3. Right-click and choose a command from the Center menu:
    • Vertically centers the form fields with respect to the page’s vertical dimension.
    • Horizontally centers the form fields with respect to the page’s horizontal dimension.
    • Both centers the form fields on the page.

To distribute form fields:

  1. Choose the Select Object Tool PDF Gold select Positioning Form Fields at Tools> Advanced or in the Advanced Toolbar.
  2. Press Shift and select the form fields that you want to distribute. You must select a minimum of three form fields.
  3. Right-click and choose one of the following commands from the Distribute menu:
    • Vertically distributes the intermediate form fields evenly between the topmost and bottommost form fields in the selection.
    • Horizontally distributes the intermediate form fields evenly between the leftmost and rightmost form fields in the selection.

Note: Distribution action do not consider Snap to Grid.

Positioning Form Fields