Text overflow to next page.

Make sure you save your file as either a dynamic PDF or an XDP file. The flow won't work if you have a static PDF file.



Also, you should not be using three different text fields. You should be using one text field, but three different content areas.

The dynamic PDF I figured out fairly early on in the game. The one-field-over-many-content-areas trick is a new one on me; I didn't find that in the tutorials. How would that work?

Try this out to see for yourself:



- Create a new template in designer and save it as a dynamic PDF.

- Create two master pages. For each page, restrict the page occurrence to a max of 1.

- Set the content area of the first page to a 2X2 inch square on the left hand side of the page

- Set the content area of the second page to a 2X2 inch square on the right hand side of the page

- You should already have one subform in the template that is now the same size as your content area on the first page. Add a second subform to your template. It should place it into your second content area. Adjust the height and width to fit into the content area.

- Add a text field to the first subform. Set its width to 2 inches. Set the height to "Expand to fit". Click the checkbox to "Allow Multiple Lines".

- Set the subform type of your first subform to "Flow Content".

- Now preview your PDF. Type a bunch of data into the text field so that it will be larger than the first content area (adding line feeds by typing 'Enter' will get you there quicker). When you are finished, click anywhere outside of the text field. The text will automatically wrap into the second content area.



There is a limitation to this solution. When the text flows into the second content area, an exact copy of the text field will be placed into that content area. This copy of the text field has the exact same width as the first text field. As a result, you cannot display text with different widths in different content areas.

OK, different width content areas won't be a problem for me in the current situation. However, I can guarantee the users won't follow a box that scrolls off the top as you type into it, only revealing how much you entered after you leave the box. And my current situation, as stated in other posts (and possibly this one), has the multi-page text field starting on page 2, which differs markedly from page 1 and has a header that differs from those on pages 3 and 4, where the narrative continues. How much of this can Designer accommodate?

> However, I can guarantee the users won't follow a box that scrolls

> off the top as you type into it, only revealing how much you entered

> after you leave the box.



I don't think there's much you can do about this with Designer from what I can tell. Regarding your other concern, it should not be a problem that the text field starts on page 2 and that the headers are different on each of the pages. This can be accomplished by defining different master pages with different content areas on each. Once your text field wraps to the next page, it will display it in the content area located on that page.