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Errors Editing Forms in Adobe Acrobat Professional 9

redcapri
Registered: May 18 2010
Posts: 5
Answered

I have forms that have been created in Word and converted to PDF's and if there is extensive changes, we edit them in Word and rework the form. However, if the change is a small text change or something minor, we perform the function using the forms editor in Adobe Acrobat.

Recenty we have noticed that editing the text caused the form to be skewed - the box missaligned or the text jumps - the form is altered - these are input forms and are utilized by our intranet.

We recenly had some Adobe 9 patches installed by our network team, could this have been a result of that patch?

Thanks,
Red

Redcap

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Windows
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
Probably not. Acrobat has a very limited editor and it is always better to use the program that created the original document.

You can replace the underlying PDF content layer and leave the PDF forms layer, so if you edit the original document form which your PDF form was created, convert the edited document to a PDF with a different name then your form, you can then replace the page of your form with the new PDF page. You may now need to adjust the form fields for better alignment or relocation.

George Kaiser

redcapri
Registered: May 18 2010
Posts: 5
Thanks, I'll relay the info to our team

Redcap