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Printing only pages with data on a form

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2010-07-16 04:04:17
inriquito
Registered: Jul 16 2010
Posts: 2

Hi all,

I've designed a 18-pages form for every teacher in my school with Livecycle 8.2. Now we need to print all these filled forms (we are 60 teachers, so 60 of them) and send them to our local administration. 18x60=1080 pages to print!

The fact is that the form is very generic and every teacher only inserts data in 7-8 pages (as an estimate). If we could print only the pages of the form where the teacher inserted data, we could save a lot of paper and printer ink.

Is there a way to do so? And if not, there is any way to, in a automatic process, delete all the empty pages of a form, and then print it?

Thanks in advance,

Enrique Llorens

P.D. Let's save the trees!!!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.2, Windows
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2010-07-16 05:00:30
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try67
Expert
Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Not sure what the exact code will look like, but I would imagine the algorithm to be something like this:
- Create a loop over all of the form fields in the document.
- For each field, check if its filled in.
- If so, add the field's page number to an array, if it's not already added.
- When the loop is done, sort the array and then print each page in it.

Maybe there's a better way to do it, though...

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