Re: Acrobat Reader
I advise you to forget PDF forms given your constraints and use HTML forms. What are you trying to gain by using PDF forms (notice that almost every form you meet on the web is an HTML form)?
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Can you post the exact text that you're using in the mailto URL? You can use a bogus email address (e.g., someone@exampe.com) in the example. Also, did you set up the submit form action to send the...
View ArticleData not appearing in fillable form once saved - but when you click on field...
We have a dynamic fillable form that's been completed and saved however we are unable to see the data in the form. However if you click on a field the data is visible. Can anyone tell me if there's a...
View ArticleRe: Tab key order..
You can set up a specific tab order with Acrobat. The exact procedure depends on which version of Acrobat you have. In 9/10/11, you have to go into form editing mode and drag the fields that appear in...
View ArticleRe: Data not appearing in fillable form once saved - but when you click on...
If it was filled-in and saved on a Mac, there is a good chance it is due to the issue discussed here: http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/885/cpsid_88564.html
View ArticleRe: How to auto-calculate time
Can you describe in more detail how you set up the calculation? Are you using a custom JavaScript or something else?
View ArticleRe: Data not appearing in fillable form once saved - but when you click on...
So this has been a problem since 2009 and Adobe hasn't created a fix for this yet?
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FTFY: So this has been a problem since 2009 and Apple hasn't created a fix for this yet?
View ArticleRe: How to auto-calculate time
No, I have no clue how to do JavaScript....and I've tried to find a pre-written JavaScript, but I do not know enough about JavaScript to understand what I found. All I did was go into the "Time Spent"...
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Re: Text fields/page breaks
Has this situation changed now that I'm using: Acrobat X CC on Mac OSX 10.8.4?(below q.’s assume pdf is to be saved as extendedpdf, so non pro x users canenter data, rename, save?) 1. Can txt boxes...
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The fix needs to come from Apple. Preview is corrupting the PDF forms that it saves and Apple doesn't seem interested in fixing the bugs relating to this. As mentioned in the article, using the script...
View ArticleRe: Submit a form button error message
Hey George, I just used the javascript and it work perfectly in Acrobat and Reader. Your link was a great help. Thanks a ton! The exact text that I put in the original Submit button through the...
View ArticleRe: How to auto-calculate time
OK, that method can't work, so you will have to use JavaScript. Unfortunately, time calculations can be somewhat complicated, but here is a link to some resources:...
View ArticleRe: Text fields/page breaks
1. No 2. No 3. If the user is using Acrobat, yes. If the user is using Reader 11, yes if the image is in PDF format. 4. Yes, but see #3. For 1 and 2, it would require a significant change to the way...
View ArticleRe: How to auto-calculate time
Yes, I had run across that site this morning, but it did not help as I do not have money to join it. Thank you anyway!
View ArticleRe: Data not appearing in fillable form once saved - but when you click on...
Can I assume that: "If a user "opens" the fillable .PDF rather than "previewing" the .PDF that this problem will not occur?
View ArticleRe: How to auto-calculate time
There are free tutorials relating to using JavaScript to do time/date calculations. Here are more links by the same author: http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/date_time_part1...
View ArticleRe: Data not appearing in fillable form once saved - but when you click on...
It shold not occur if the user uses Adobe Reader or Acrobat. Non-Adobe PDF viewers (such as Preview) may not have as complete support for PDF forms and other features such as JavaScript.
View ArticleRe: Make a form in acrobat and make it work the same in reader
Through further tinkering, I figured out that the problem was that acrobat created the text boxes in the form, I went back and manually added them in the order I wanted and it ended up working on both...
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