Words we use

The words of PDFjet Forms, and what each one means here.

What you make

Document: Any PDF you make: a letter, an invoice, a label, or a form, a document with fields.
Form: A PDF with fields that people fill in.
Field: A place on a form where people type, choose an option, check a box or sign.
Template: A ready-made document or form to start from.

Component: One thing on the page: a text, a table, an image, a QR code, a field, a line, a box, a space or a page break.
Row and column: The page is a grid. Each row goes across the page and holds one or more columns side by side; each column holds components.
Header and footer: Rows at the top and at the bottom of every page, such as a title or a page number.
Points: The unit of every size, width and height in the editor: 72 points are 1 inch, or 25.4 mm.
Description: Words that say what an image shows, which a screen reader reads aloud. Also called alt text.

Save: Write the PDF to your computer. The PDF also keeps everything the editor needs to open it again.
Open: Load a PDF made here into the editor, to change it or to fill it in. A PDF made elsewhere, by a word processor or another program, does not open here: change it with your PDF editor.
Fill in: Type the answers into the fields of a form, then save the filled PDF.
Response: A form that someone filled in and sent back to you.
Changed copy: A form someone changed before filling it in, such as a label reworded. Any change to a form but its answers makes it a new form, so Collect responses sets the copy apart from the answers to yours and says what was changed.
Collect responses: Read many filled PDFs of one form into one table, which you can save as a CSV file, a file that a spreadsheet opens.

Free version: Everything the editor does, free. What you make with it has a small line at the bottom: on each page of a form, on the first page of other documents.
PDFjet Forms Plus: The paid plan. Forms and documents made with it have no line of the free version.
Key: A code that turns on PDFjet Forms Plus in a browser. We email it to you when you buy. Also called a license key.
Key file: The file private-key.json, which opens the answers of your forms that encrypt their answers. It is saved when your key is made: keep it with your forms, and a second copy of it. Not the same as the key of PDFjet Forms Plus.
Invite link: A web address that holds the key. Anyone who opens it has PDFjet Forms Plus in that browser: share it with your team.

Screen reader: Software that reads the screen aloud, for people who are blind or cannot see well.
Accessible PDF (PDF/UA): A PDF that a screen reader can read in the right order, with its headings, tables and fields named.
PDF for long-term storage (PDF/A): A PDF made to open and look the same for many years.