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215 Thumbnails Note: Because of the liberal use of forms on the World Wide Web, users are accustomed to clicking the Submit button when finished. 7.7.2 Designing Forms for Print Use PDF files are an excellent file format for resolution-independent printing needs. A field’s contents and appearance print like other PDF page objects. When designing any form, take into account the possibility that the form may be printed or used off-line. For these reasons, page dimensions and the use of color play a factor. PDF pages used as forms, which are regularly printed, are better served as standard paper sizes. Many users will not print forms in color. Use colors that print legibly on standard resolution printers. Pay careful attention to the background color of a form, as colored text may be much less visible when printed in grayscale than when viewed onscreen. PDF form fields can be set with a Don’t Print attribute to prevent selected fields (including their values) from printing. See Table 7.6—17, “Field Properties: General,” for information on field attributes. The Don’t Print attribute does not affect the submission of the form to a server’s script or application, and it enables users to view and interact with form fields normally. 7.8 Thumbnails Thumbnails are miniature representations of the pages in a PDF file. When Page and Thumbnail view is selected in any Acrobat viewer, thumbnails appear in the left-most margin (the overview
