Creating PDF templates

You can create PDF template forms with several applications:

• Acrobat Pro
• How-to: Create PDF forms with OpenOffice
• PDF Forms Designer

In order to make a relation between the template form field and the property group, you have to name them following a naming convention: replace ":" and "." by "_". Here you can see the matching between both fields:

PROPERTY GROUP NAME	TEMPLATE FIELD NAME
okp:tpl.name	okp_tpl_name
okp:tpl.bird_date	okp_tpl_bird_date
okp:tpl.language	okp_tpl_language

To create a template in OpenOffice.org go to View > Toolbars > Form Controls. The a new dialog will appear and you will be able to add form elements to the document. This dialog contains form stuff such as Labels, Text Boxes, Check Boxes, etc.

Once the form has been created, go to File > Export as PDF to generate a PDF with these form fields. This is the final result:

Here you have the generated PDF file: File:Tpl.pdf.