I have multiple PDFs that all the same page but saved as different files. Within each saved file I have a title on each such as "Type A" then the next is "Type B". These save fine when saved as their own files but once I combine them using insert pages it overwrites my typed information I have on each page.
For example instead of having a "Type A" page and the next being a "Type B" page they have all overwritten to say "Type A". Is there a way to disabel this feature? I am using Acrobat 9 standard. Thanks!
Acrobat 9 Standard overwriting information
2009-10-19 11:38:33
My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
2009-10-21 14:32:48
#2
I had originally typed in each field. I went back and tried to add various spaces in the different fields and it is still combining the "Types" into the same one.
2009-10-21 17:02:51
#3
Hi,
What kind of "field" did you use?
Something available with Acrobat?
The Button tool (from the Advanced Editing toolbar) or a tool from the Comment and Markup Toolbar?
Or, a field placed in the authoring application?
Or, a text field from the Forms add fields menu?
From your initial description it seems that you used the Button Tool or a Text Field.
If so, it is the "Name" of each placed field that must be unique.
The default name for a button is "Button1".
If this button field is copied and then pasted to other PDF files, the "Name" is still "Button1".
While you can edit the button field's properties (tooltip, label entry, etc.) in the different PDFs all the button fields still have a "Name" = "Button1".
When these are inserted into a "parent" PDF, [b]all[/b] button fields of Name = Button1 take on the values of what is in the "parent" PDF's 'Button1" field.
A like situation occurs if you are using the Text Field from "Forms".
Here, you start with default "Name" = "Text1".
So, if you've added a field with Acrobat, look to its "name" in the properties dialog.
Make each unique (e.g., Button1, Button2, ... or ButtonA, ButtonB, ... or TextA, TextB, ...).
Be well...
What kind of "field" did you use?
Something available with Acrobat?
The Button tool (from the Advanced Editing toolbar) or a tool from the Comment and Markup Toolbar?
Or, a field placed in the authoring application?
Or, a text field from the Forms add fields menu?
From your initial description it seems that you used the Button Tool or a Text Field.
If so, it is the "Name" of each placed field that must be unique.
The default name for a button is "Button1".
If this button field is copied and then pasted to other PDF files, the "Name" is still "Button1".
While you can edit the button field's properties (tooltip, label entry, etc.) in the different PDFs all the button fields still have a "Name" = "Button1".
When these are inserted into a "parent" PDF, [b]all[/b] button fields of Name = Button1 take on the values of what is in the "parent" PDF's 'Button1" field.
A like situation occurs if you are using the Text Field from "Forms".
Here, you start with default "Name" = "Text1".
So, if you've added a field with Acrobat, look to its "name" in the properties dialog.
Make each unique (e.g., Button1, Button2, ... or ButtonA, ButtonB, ... or TextA, TextB, ...).
Be well...
How, specifically, did you place the "title" entry into each PDF?
For example, perhaps you used a field and you have this field display the 'type' entry.
You copy-paste this into each PDF.
You change the 'type' value (A > B > C, etc.).
However, the field's name has not been changed.
Inserting the 'B', 'C', etc. PDFs into the 'A' PDF results in a single PDF with multiple fields that all have the same name.
Result is all fields will display the 'parent' ('A' PDF) field's display text.
For such a situation, go back to the individual PDFs and give each field a unique name.
Now, when 'B', 'C', etc. are inserted, in turn, into 'A' each uniquely named field retains its display text.
Be well...
Be well...