I am using Acrobat Pro 8 on XP SP2 and don't have Adobe Products on networked computer. One problem I am having is the scrollable text fields will not print. I have tried everything, printing with different options in print setup and have searched all the help engines for two days and viewed videos today. I saw one answer today and it was closer but asked the person to write back and mention something about java. I think Java is on my system but I know nothing about that. I am interested in making this form I created from WORD more efficient as a PDF and user-friendly for those with Reader only. I have it finalized but cheated a little by editing the form with white boxes to cover a few things but noticed they printed below the new stuff. I saw one answer to that about using the native program to edit or the touch-up tool would go into one of the Adobe pkgs but it's not on this system and 8 is not on the Adobe system here at work. Is there an easier way or am I stuck in making those changes in Word then coming back to Pro 8? I am glad I found this site. Thanks,
Diana
You've covered a lot here and I'm not sure exactly what you need. But I'll give it a try.
What gets printed is what's visible on the PDF page and what's enabled for printing. Normally everything is enabled for printing. But things like fields can be blocked from printing by options on either the field itself or in the print dialog. But generally this is not something you have to worry about.
If a text field is scrollable, and has more text in it that fits in the visible space. The text is lost to printing. There's not really much you can do about it except make the field large enough to show all the text.
The best, and recommended way to change text or graphics on a PDF page is to edit it in the original tool and then reconvert to PDF. The touchup tools don't always work. Acrobat is a document finishing tool, not a content entry tool. However, if you want to block out data, you could use the "Redaction" tool in Acrobat 8.
Thom Parker
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