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1. Re: Form doesn't play nicely with Acrobat 8 Pro
past-tense Dec 16, 2011 9:10 AM (in response to past-tense)Alright, I have a bit of an update.
First, I want to add that with Acrobat 9 or later, my form functions exactly as I had intended. It's just the one partner organization with Acobat 8.0 that is seeing this issue.
Anyhow, I went through my form paying very close attention to the 'keep with next/prev' settings. I fiddled with those, and sent a revised version off to our partner for testing. They have reported that the issue surrounding the order of the subforms has been resolved. There still is, however, the issue with the additional blank pages being added to the end of the form.
I asked them a few more questions about this, and it seems that every time that they add an instance of a repeatable subform a number of blank pages are added to the end of the subform. Again, I don't have this happening when I view it in Acrobat 9 or Acrobat X, but our partner organization using Acrobat 8 does.
Has anyone come across a similar issue before?
- Scott
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2. Re: Form doesn't play nicely with Acrobat 8 Pro
Niall O'Donovan Dec 17, 2011 4:14 AM (in response to past-tense)Hi Scott,
I suspect that the page is also set to repeat (in the Object > Binding palette). Just a hunch...
Niall
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3. Re: Form doesn't play nicely with Acrobat 8 Pro
kingphysh Dec 17, 2011 10:01 AM (in response to Niall O'Donovan)Hi,
Keep in mind, you only need Reader to use the forms (unless you're doing somthing beyond filling-in form fields). Encouraging Reader (vs Pro) lets the user have the full benefit of all form handling updates--and other compatibility issues like IE9. I've have seen what I believe may be a bug that went away when the client upgraded from Reader 9 to Reader 10. It had to do with repeating table cells all named "Cell" .
For one user, their Reader 9 choked, reporting that it couldn't find Row[i]Cell (this is when the script was looking at Row[i].Cell[0] in a for loop). Didn't like it, but upgrading to Reader 10 made it go away--whew!
I don't rule out that if we tried re-instatling Reader 9, that might have fixed it, as well. However, I've had a problem reported from a different user with Reader 9, that went away with Reader 10, as well. I didn't have the opportunity to view the error reported, so I can't say for sure it was the same thing. That user upgraded and the problem went away.
I now insist that my clients have Reader 10. For me, its just asking for trouble, not to. Here you see there have been improvements for form handling in Reader 8, 9 & 10.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83708/attachments/Acrobat_Reader_ReleaseNote_9.4.5_8.3. pdf
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83708/attachments/Acrobat_Reader_ReleaseNote_10.1.pdf
All Release Notes with links here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83708.html
Good luck!
Stephen




