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Using a Mac - Button for repeating a section/table in a Form?

2010-05-30 23:11:05

MarieOSO

Registered: Nov 26 2009

Posts: 2

Hi All, New to posting on this forum, so I'm sorry if it is a bit like wading through mud to understand.

I use a Mac and have Acrobat 9 Pro (9.3.2 that came with CS5). I would like to set up a form with a button that could repeat a section or table. For example, if the form asks for previous jobs, they could press the button to add each new job rather than having either not enough spaces to complete or just a lot of blank space.

Also, being able to add a row in a table would be good.

All the results of searching seem to point to LiveCycle, so any direction would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Marie

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2010-05-31 02:13:36

try67

Registered: Oct 30 2008

Posts: 2398

In LiveCycle there's a built-in function to do this, as you've seen.
However, it's possible to create a button in an Acrobat form that will generate new text fields, but it requires quite a bit of custom scripting.
Also, you will need to have the space available in the document for these new fields, as Acrobat forms are not dynamic like LC ones.

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