I have just joined this forum, but I am working under a deadline, so I hope someone can help me. Otherwise, I would take the time to view all the wonderful information available here.
I have created 5 forms, each one for a different company I do business with. Each of these forms has common information I need to fill in. Business Name, Contact Name, Address1, Address2, City, State, Zip, Business Phone, Business Fax, E-Mail, and Tax ID. I am hoping someone can help me with a "auto-fill" feature, similar to Google or PayPal, where I can type the information into a form and have it available to the other forms, as my needs fit. I am using Acrobat 8.1 Professional and I am a novice to Acrobat, Thanks, Dick
The answer I previously received did not work. I do not have PFN directory in ver 7. Looking for a quick, workable response please. I am a computer novice, do not write code and I am under a deadline, so please be descriptive, show me examples, etc. Thanks again
The form fields that are in common to all the forms should have the same name. You could even add a form to just get the information with the common data. You can then use the Form import export data in Acrobat to exprt the form field data as an FDF. Now in the next form, you just import the FDF file prefviously exported.
http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/article.asp?ContentID=Importing_and_exporting_form_data_in_Acrobat&gid=7445
http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=Processing+Acrobat+Form+Data+As+Easy+As+HTML&gid=6574Another option is to write a script to open tha other form and tansfer the data to the appropriate form field. But Adobe requires some additional code to get around security issues.
One could also us ADBC to put and get data from an SQL database.
http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=6088
George Kaiser