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Anonymous
September 10, 2008

Flowing text onto a second page

  • September 10, 2008
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I have a form where I am pasting text in a subform (occupies an entire page) a lot of text. Everything works fine when the pasted text is more then one page and I get scrolling bar at the right and a black and white + at the bottom right. The problem is I want the text to be flowed on to the next page. This is needed because the form may need to be printed and faxed sometimes.



I have tried several tricks but so far I have not stumbled upon a good solution!



Any help would be appreciated!
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Anonymous
September 17, 2008
I also am having this same dilemma. I have the form available, if someone could help me activate the function to flow the text onto another page. I have Adobe LifeCycle Designer ES 8.2 that came with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended.

Thank you!
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Anonymous
September 18, 2008
I am using Adobe LiveCycle 8. I have expandable boxes working well. My only problem is, I don't want them to expand forever. I'd like to limit each box to 10 lines. Is this possible? If I limit with characters, it doesn't work because it allows carriage returns.
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Anonymous
September 18, 2008
Bob,



Here are the steps you need to take:



1. Create a subform with content = Flowed and Allow Page Breaks within Content checked (not blank).

2. Insert a Text Box in the subform created above with the following properties:

a. Layout Tab - Check Expand to Fit under Height

b. On Border Tab - Check Omit Border around Page Breaks

c1. On Object / Field Tab - Check Allow Multiple Lines

c2. On Object / Field Tab - Check Allow Page Breaks within Content and Keep with Next.



Be sure you are using v8.0+ of LiveCycle ES otherwise this won't work!



Good luck!
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Anonymous
September 18, 2008
Prakash,

Make sure your form is being saved as a dynamic PDF and not a Static PDF. That is usually one thing that is easily missed that will cause this dynamic functionality to not function properly. Here are a couple of settings that you should check (in Designer 8.2):



- Form Properties-->Preview-->Preview Type (should be Interactive Form)

- Form Properties-->Preview-->Preview Adobe XML Form As (should be Dynamic XML Form)

- File-->Save As-->Save as Type (should be Adobe Dynamic XML Form)



Justin
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Anonymous
September 19, 2008
Please explain...

How do I create a subform with content? As soon as I make the subform "flowed", it turns into a straight broken line, not allowing me to insert a text box.

I am using LiveCycle ver. 8.
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bjklein13
November 5, 2009

Help!

I am trying to flow text, from expandable text fields, onto a second page.  Can anyone give me some pointers to make this possible?  See attached form.

Thanks!

Srini_Dhulipall
Srini_Dhulipall
Level 10
November 5, 2009

Hi,

    I corrected your form and attached in the post..You basically need to make the entire page as a Flowed subform and wrap each multiline text field into a separate subform will resolve your issue. Let me know if you still have issues.

Thanks

Srini

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Anonymous
October 6, 2011

HI i am also having problems with this.  When i flow text onto the next page, the text is repeated from the beginning instead of only the text that has overflowed.  I am using dynamic forms.  When I change it to static it is working fine, but I need URL links which are not supported by static forms.   Please help.  Thanks!

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Anonymous
October 6, 2011

Can you email your form to LiveCycle8@gmail.com and I will have a look when I get a chance. Please include a description of your issue when with your email.

Paul

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Bferg23
July 30, 2013

Hi,

Did this ever get solved? I am having a problem with an imported checklist from a pdf into LiveCycle. Then below I want to add a "comments" text field that flows to second page if required. Nothing listed in this forum has worked. I would love to NOT have to build the form from scratch because I hate the workability of livecycle for the form I need.

Thanks.

Brian

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cwertz
June 25, 2014

Is it possible to have multi line text fields that can expand to a second page while that field is inside of a table? i have a table on my form and need one of the boxes in each row to be expandable.

thanks.

Chris

jjm_1
jjm_1
October 31, 2015

Is it possible to create an expanding form field in Adobe Acrobat X Standard? I am updating an existing from but will create a new form if necessary.

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