App: Fillably
Developer: Joel Norvell
Genres: Utilities, Business

Fillably's mission is to do one thing well: construct PDF forms quickly and accurately.

You start with a “flat” PDF image of your form; it looks like a form but can’t be filled in. Then you lay out fields over it by selecting the type of field from a tool palette – Text, Checkbox or Radio button – and sketching it on the form. 

After sketching fields, it's easy to reposition, resize and align them to be pixel perfect! You can select and drag fields to reposition them. You can resize a field by selecting it and then dragging one of its selection handles. You can select multiple fields and align them along their left, right, top or bottom edges. Or center them horizontally or vertically. Or make them the same width, same height or same size. You can nudge, grow or shrink a selected item with the arrow keys. All actions are, of course, undoable.

You can use the same commands to reposition and resize items that you paste.

There is a power feature called "paste hints" that lets you paste fields with speed and precision. By clicking on the image you can override the default placement location of pasted items. The paste target will be a tiny red rectangle at the point where you clicked. And it will become the location of the bottom-left corner of the item you are pasting. 

If multiple items are selected and copied, they will be pasted as if the bottom-left corner of their selection rectangle were geometrically translated to the paste target.

Using "paste hints” will improve your control over the location of items you paste so there will be less dragging to get them in place. This will really speed things up!

You can easily set the form's tab order by Command-clicking on its fields in the order in which you want to tab through them. When you’re done, click once on the form to clear the selection. That seals the tab order. You can Show/Hide the tab order with CMD-0.

When you Save the document, the fields are “baked into” the PDF and it becomes fillable. Then any user can open it in Preview and fill it in. 

See the Fly-Through for a full explanation of how Fillably works. https://fillable.app/fly-through.html

There are other apps that do this, but I believe Fillably is the best one for this task, and at $4.99 it's a great deal!

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