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Help With Multi-Line Forms

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2009-10-06 14:10:09
carlkingcreative
Registered: Oct 6 2009
Posts: 3

Hi,

I am creating a form (using lines) in Indesign. I export it to a PDF and open it in Acrobat 8 Pro. It does everything perfectly when I run Form Field Recognition, except for one thing: When I type into the text fields it creates, I have to hit Tab to get to the next line. It is identifying them and naming them accordingly, but I'd like the text to flow.

Under Hints For Repair, it says the following:

"Multi-line text fields may not be recognized if the boundary area for text entry appears too confined."

I don't know what that means exactly. Is this a common bug? My form is extremely simple, so there is nothing tricky to it at all. No fancy graphics. Just plain old text and lines.

Does anyone know what could be happening here?

-Carl.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1, Macintosh
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2009-10-13 09:54:16
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lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Individual text boxes will be created for each underline that you have in your form, In the Form Field Recognition tool, multi-line Text fields are created if the text box area is taller than 36 points (without multiple underlines).

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2009-10-28 20:07:03
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carlkingcreative
Registered: Oct 6 2009
Posts: 3
How would I go about creating a text box area that is taller than 36 points? I tried doing it in Indesign using the Type Tool (then exporting to PDF and opening the file in Acrobat) with no luck. It did not recognize it.

-Carl.
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