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PDF Forms Not Printing Entirely
Hello All,
This is my first question here at Experts Exchange and I sure hope that someone is able to help. I have searched high and low here on EE but was unable to find a similar problem.
I have created yearly PDF appraisal forms for our employees and directors to complete and print out to have employees sign off on them. I had to create these forms in a very backwards way, by starting with provided Word Documents ( I know...) and then in turn convert them to PDF's ( I know...) and then take that PDF and create forms out of them using an outdated product Adobe LiveCycle.
The issue everyone is having is the form fields are only so big. When a user enters more information into a form field than can be displayed a scroll bar appears so the user can scroll to view the entire contents of the field. The big problem is when these managers and employees try to print out the PDF's to have their employees sign off on them, the entire contents of the form fields fail to print off leaving their responses cut off.
I have a feeling this is something that cannot be avoided, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything that one of you could shed some light on. Thanks for any and all help!
This is my first question here at Experts Exchange and I sure hope that someone is able to help. I have searched high and low here on EE but was unable to find a similar problem.
I have created yearly PDF appraisal forms for our employees and directors to complete and print out to have employees sign off on them. I had to create these forms in a very backwards way, by starting with provided Word Documents ( I know...) and then in turn convert them to PDF's ( I know...) and then take that PDF and create forms out of them using an outdated product Adobe LiveCycle.
The issue everyone is having is the form fields are only so big. When a user enters more information into a form field than can be displayed a scroll bar appears so the user can scroll to view the entire contents of the field. The big problem is when these managers and employees try to print out the PDF's to have their employees sign off on them, the entire contents of the form fields fail to print off leaving their responses cut off.
I have a feeling this is something that cannot be avoided, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything that one of you could shed some light on. Thanks for any and all help!
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We have thought of that, but it would require everyone within our company to scrap the forms they have already filled out and this effects roughly 300 managers/employees. To get everyone to RE-FILL out these forms isn't an acceptable solution. That solution will probably help for next year when I purchase the latest version of Acrobat and create these forms in a better program.
Good read and very informative article btw!
Good read and very informative article btw!
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quick thought, if you set the font size to zero (0) the contents will adjust to fit the field, see:
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobatineducation/2006/03/auto_resizing_text_in_pdf_form.html
hth
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