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Cut & Paste Form Fields - Orentation Change?

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2011-06-09 14:47:11
markojett
Registered: Dec 21 2009
Posts: 22
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Hi friends - I've run across something weird. I have 2 almost identical forms, 1 has interactive form fields and the other does not. I'm doing a "select all" and choosing all the form fields from the first and trying to cut and paste them into the second form.
 
The problem is, when I paste into the new form, it pastes all the fields portrait on the landscape page. I've even tried to rotate both pages before cutting and it does the exact same thing.
 
Any ideas? There are over 100 fields and it sure would be much easier to cut and paste instead of recreating...
 
Thanks in advance.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.1, Windows
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2011-06-09 17:56:20
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
The page you are pasting to has been rotated and the field you are pasting to it has not been rotated to match the page you are pasting it to.

George Kaiser

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2011-06-10 07:00:49
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markojett
Registered: Dec 21 2009
Posts: 22
Hi George - That's the thing...I've rotated each form different ways to try to get them to match up, but I get the same results each time no matter how I rotate them. Would it help you to see these forms?
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2011-06-10 10:43:18
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gkaiseril
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You need to change the orientation of the form field. This is a property of the field.

Form fields are located on a different layer than the page content and act independently.

George Kaiser

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2011-06-10 11:18:34
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markojett
Registered: Dec 21 2009
Posts: 22
George - You are brilliant! Thanks so much.
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