Tag Definition: form

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Attributes

Name	Required?	Default_Value	Values
name	required	None
Can contain (saveState \| restoreState \| drawString \| drawRightString \| drawCentredString \| drawCenteredString \| ellipse \| alias \| catchForms \| outlineAdd \| namedString \| bookmarkPage \| bookmark \| circle \| rect \| fill \| stroke \| overprint \| blendMode \| setFont \| setFontSize \| image \| pageGraphics \| place \| placePara \| placeXPre \| form \| doForm \| plugInGraphic \| scale \| translate \| rotate \| skew \| transform \| grid \| path \| lines \| curves \| lineMode \| textBox \| barCode \| checkBox \| letterBoxes \| textAnnotation \| highlightAnnotation \| textField \| checkboxField \| radioField \| choiceField \| listboxField \| drawingGraphic \| drawIf \| markedContent \| crossMark \| digitalSignature \| loop_g \| switch_g \| assign_g \| if_g)*

Purpose

This lets you define a set of graphical operations that can be repeated. It dramatically cuts file sizes by just referencing the form once each time. It's especially noticeable with a large number of uses. Use with doForm

Check out our docs page on this.

Example usage

<pageGraphics>
    <form name="myForm">
        <drawString x="0" y="24">
            Your graphic operations would go here.
        </drawString>
        <drawString x="0" y="12">
            There would probably be a lot of them to make up something useful.
        </drawString>
    </form>
    <doForm name="myForm"/>
</pageGraphics>

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