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Commenting and expanding form fields

2007-03-22 02:49:11

ashis

Registered: Mar 22 2007

Posts: 4

Our client requires a PDF form where users can enter data into form fields and also be able to add annotations (drawings, comments etc) to the form. The form fields must also expand based on the amount of data entered.

I read a one line statement in the LiveCycle 8.0 help that commenting and expanding subforms are not possible in the same PDF. Is this true and if so are there any workarounds?

Thanks

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows

2007-03-22 10:27:35

tedpadova

Registered: Dec 31 2005

Posts: 848

What you read is true. If you create a form in LiveCycle Designer, you can create a dynamic form with fields that can be expanded. But you cannot add comments.

If you create a form in Acrobat, you can add comments to the form, but you cannot expand the fields.

There is no workaround.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.