Printed or saved list of form fields

If you are using the same groups and configurations of form fields then maybe you should consider using LiveCycle forms. LiveCycle Designer has a components library that allows you to add your own components. Basically a group of content and fields.

Alternatively you could write an Acrobat Automation script that would list out the fields on a form or even compare the fields between two forms. But this is some fairly sophisticated JavaScirpt programming.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]

I am intending using LiveCycle to build the forms that have to be done from scratch, but about 130 of these are supplied as ordinary pdf's by an organisation and am using acrobat forms wizard to create fields for these as it is much quicker to edit and add missed fields than create them all from scratch in LiveCycle.

Some of the forms are more than 25 pages long.

Many of the fields are not common to multiple forms, but i would estimate there may be 40 or 50 fields that will be used across many forms in order to pre-fill base information.

I'm thinking maybe your suggestion of an automation script would be the answer, but dont have the js skills for that, so guess I'm stuck with the handwritten list for now.

At least I can stop wondering if Adobe happened to build in some nifty function that would allow me to print the list of field names. lol

Thanks for your help

Shazee

That would be a very handy tool, so it's not suprising that they didn't add it;)