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Flowing text onto a second page

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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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Having a field scroll across a page margin is not possible in anything before version 9. Are you using version 9 or something earlier.

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Then it will not scroll ....can you upgrade to 9?

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Is there a LC ES v9 available? Or are you referring to the Reader v9?

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I was refering to the version of Designer that ships with Acrobat 9 (it is actually 8.2). Then you woudl need Acrobat/Reader 9 to handle the new break.

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This actually is possible with Acrobat 7 and 8. You can prove it out with the following step-by-step procedures:

- Create a new form with a single body page. Save it as a Dynamic PDF form.

- Drag and drop a text field onto the page. Select the option to "Allow Multiple Lines". Also, make sure "Expand to Fit" is checked for the Y direction on the Layout pallette.

- Set your body page to be a "Flowed" content subform (it is "Positioned" by default)

- Do a PDF Preview. Enter enough text to span multiple pages. When you click out of the field, it will wrap across multiple pages.



Hope this helps!

Justin Klei

Cardinal Solutions Group

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Justin - Thanks for your suggestion! It works - again only in a new form. In the form I am working on with a bunchof other objects the "Allow Page Breaks within content" is greyed out and I think that is the difference! But I have no idea why that check box is greyed out! I have tried manipulating a bunch of properties but nothing changes!



Paul - I am now convinced that I have the most current versions including all the updates for LC ES 8.2 that came with my Acrobat Pro Extended (v9.0.0)and Acrobat Reader (v9.0.0)

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To allow page breaks to happen your content has to be in a flowed subform. Are you using flowed or position subforms?

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I am using flowed subform. I used Justin's approach and it works fine on a "virgin" new form but the same settings do not work in the form I sent you. I just get a + at the bottom right hand corner. I have spent a couple of hours trying many combinations including deleting the old page and inserting a new page, add new subform and the text box and I end up with the +at bottom right.

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I no longer have the form, can you resend it along with an explanation of where the troublesome field is and I will have a look. Send it to: livecycle8@gmail.com

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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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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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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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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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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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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!

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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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Thank you, that did the job!  However, I can't figure out how to do it myself....

I am unable to manipulate the pagination tab.  Is there something that I need to do to turn this on?  I'm hoping that's the issue...

Thanks again!

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Have any of you that are having problems checked the target version your form is set to run in? Click File >> Form Properties >> Defaults and make sure Target Version is set to Acrobat and Adobe Reader 8.1 or later.

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Mine flows to the 2nd page OK, but then the it overlaps my header that I've built on the Master page.  Any ideas on how I can avoid that?