Adobe Xml Form To Pdf

[Anita Damelio]

Suddenly I cannot drag a field to change its order in the field pane. I click, hold and drag, and can see the little dotted line move, but when I unclick the field remains stuck. All of the fields appear to be locked against dragging.

Do you have the ability to upgrade to Acrobat DC:2018, the latest version? It provides a few more options in controlling fields. You could download the free trial to see if it resolves the problem and then purchase it if it does.

I think I may have solved the problem. While in form editing, I tried selecting Order Tabs Unspecified from the Tab Order dropdown. All the fields kind of hiccupped --- and suddenly I had the freedom to drag fields at will again. Oddly enough when I looked back under the Tab Order later on, it had reset itself to Order Tabs Manually.

I created a form yesterday - with the extensive help of a forum member - and thought it was fine until I checked it online. I have a column of items with quantity x price = total, and a grand total at the end that adds the individual totals.

The problem is the field calculation order is incorrect. To correct it, go into forms editing mode (Forms > Add or Edit Fields) and then select "Forms > Edit Fields > Set Field Calculation Order" and set the correct order.

Unfortunately, it's not the order that is the problem. I need to use the Extend Usage option so that users with pcs can save the completed form. Once I do that, calculations AND other links cease to work.

I keep trying I have just my last formula not working correctly. I have updated the calculation order but still will not give me the result. I could really use some assistance I am loosing my mind on this.

Thanks for doing that. My first attempt to use the form you made was on Chrome on my mac. It did not work, so I didn't even try it on the pc. The individual totals do change when the quantities are entered but the final total stays at 0. The only button that worked was the Reset. I couldn't save to computer, couldn't click through to paypal. These are necessary functions for the intended users who will not likely own acrobat and most probably be on pcs.

If the calculations seem to work at first and then break once you've saved and re-opened the form, you might be battling the same bug I am, in which case no amount of attention to how your calculations are set up is going to fix anything.

For the past week, every newly-saved form I make (even just as extended-features-enabled copies of existing forms that work perfectly well) fails to calculate once I close it and re-open it. I assume it's the result of some software update or another, but the truth is I have no idea. --And apparently nobody else does, since no one responded to my post.-- But if you're suffering from the same problem, then your calculation set-up may be perfectly fine. I've replicated the problem on a number of very simple test forms, as well. They work fine... until I hit save, close them, and re-open them. Then they're just inert.

I am having the same issue even using Adobe Reader. While I change the order of the field calculations in Adobe Acrobate DC the form calculates fine. Once I save and reopen the PDF the calculation skips the last entry made in the table. Is there some global recalculation for the form that can be triggered each time a field is edited?

The only related issue I know of is that my Safari was in 64 bit mode and it would not read a calculation form I have online. I think someone here said to go to Get Info on the Safari icon and open in 32 bit mode and it works fine now.

Well, that did ring a bell. The pc I test on is a 64 bit machine. However, I just tried your version of the form on my mac in Chrome and the calculations do not work. Entering a quantity updates the individual total but the final total stays at 0.

I had a similar problem with a pdf created in LCD. If you ever open a pdf form in LCD and see a message about it being Reader Enabled and that you have to overwrite it, you likely have the same problem I had... My file went from less than 300 kb to more than 16 Mb... and back to around 300 kb with the following solution...

I have been having a hell of a time getting our forms put back together in Acrobat Pro DC. Besides the well known iOS issues, I now have some of our forms going out with double fields. For instance, I will have a plain text field named "Description_01" I will finish up the document, send it out to our techs, then when the document comes back printing is a nightmare because the text will be blurred around. I started looking into the problem and set a hard font size for that box, also set so that long lines will not scroll. That fixed many of the issues, but when you printed it, the text would appear bold. I went back into editing and found out that for some reason, some of my text fields had doubled. In edit, it looks normal, but if you click on the field and drag the box, there is another copy of the exact same field right below it. How does that even happen?

I just had this problem but luckily I noticed it right away. I had selected multiple fields by using the ctrl button because I wanted to go into properties>options then center all of the fields. The issue happened immediately after doing this. I had to click on each field and continue to delete until it would delete the very last existing field then use the undo 1 time. This took each field back to it's original settings so I had to customize it again but it definitely fixed the duplicate issue. I will not be attempting this "shortcut" again Hope this helps!

It's most likely that you accidentally duplucated the fields, so that one is on top of the other and set up with different font settings. It is easy to accidentally duplicate when you have the Ctrl key held down while even slightly moving the mouse.

We are having this same problem. It is not a problem with accidentally duplicating fields. The new client form that we send out is sent to new clients to fill out and send back. I am finding that 80-90% of the time the client fills it out, sends it back and we are able to print it. Several times a month, we run into the entire form doing what the original poster describes. Visually it is fine but when printing, it usually says there is an error (but still prints) and double prints all of the fields of text.

We also have two other problems whereas people fill it out, save it and when it gets to us it is blank (theirs is blank too when they go back and check it). I ask them to save it to their computer or tablet first before filling it out. That works most of the time. Also, only about 20% of the people are able to figure out how to do the digital signature. Most of the time they say they click on it and nothing happens.

However, it is the duplicating text that is the biggest problem (7-page form) because I have to create a new one for our printed records. Note: there are two of every field for the text, which is why it is double printing, however, the original document does not have two fields for every field nor would I suspect that several people each month are accidentally duplicating all 50+ text boxes in a 7-page fillable pdf. And, of course, this is only happening to 10% or so of the people who fill these out.

I did find a little bit of a solution. I grabbed another, non Adobe, PDF reader and when I would get a messed up form, I open it in that other reader and it then prints fine. I haven't had the double field issue on print since I started running the corrupted ones through the other reader. So far, works every time.

Getting a different PDF reader didn't work for me. Nor can I control what program the client uses. I could not find that there were any layers, either. Nothing I have tried works, except deleting all the information in the fields that appear blue to me when they send it back. Then all the blue fields appear blank to me, but will print the information that is hiding behind the blue field. This isn't a good solution.

That's exactly what's happened to me! UGH! Why would Adobe do this when holding down CTRL is the universal way to select more than one item? Adobe, why on earth would you make this the way to duplicate items in Acrobat...especially since holding down ALT and dragging is the way to duplicate items in the rest of the Adobe products?!

Ctrl is used (in Windows) for both functions, actually. When dragging an item it is used to create a copy of it (try dragging an icon on the desktop and then press Ctrl. It will change from moving it to making a copy of it). When selecting items it is used to toggle the selection of a single item. Acrobat follows that convention. The problem is that the sensitivity of the operation is very high, so it can happen that you try to click once to select an item but because you've moved the mouse slightly you've created a copy, because Ctrl was held down.

Sensitive is right! I didn't know there were duplicates in my form until I started typing into the fields, which means the movement was so miniscule, it didn't even move the field enough to misalign with the original field underneath. Even when I went back looking for duplicates, I couldn't tell which ones had a duplicate, so the accidental dragging couldn't have been more than a couple of pixels' distance.

My new practice will be to select the fields from the fields list in the right sidebar. If I want to, for example, change the text appearance of 20 different fields, this allows me to continute to hold down CTRL to select many fields at once without unwittingly duplicating those fields.

I appreciate the suggestion, and I have made it to them myself, however, we have been having issues with iOS breaking the large text boxes and when the tickets come in, the large boxes appear empty, until you click on the field, then the text shows up. But, as soon as you click anywhere else, the field is empty again.

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