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ajrogan81
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April 24, 2019
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Can you have an 'add new page' script?

  • April 24, 2019
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Hi,

Firstly Thank You for taking the time to read this...

...I have a form that I am creating in Acrobat Pro X, I am pretty new to Acrobat Forms but have managed to create quite an impressive form, however I need to be able to have an 'Add New Page' button on the bottom of the pages which would create a new page with a form template on it exactly the same as the previous page...

...is this possible in Acrobat Pro or would I have to use LiveCycle Form Designer?

If I have to use LiveCycle Form Designer can I import the forms I have created in Acrobat Pro and keep all the scripts in them or would I have to totally recreate the form again in Form Designer?

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JR Boulay
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JR BoulayCommunity Expert
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April 24, 2019

Beware that spawning pages works in Acrobat Reader XI and DC only.

It works fine with Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Standard X, but not with Reader X and older versions.

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maxwyss
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April 27, 2019

… and how old is Reader X???

try67
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try67Community Expert
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April 24, 2019

Don't use LCD. It's pretty much a dead technology and the application is no longer bundled with Acrobat (your version, or maybe XI, is the last one that had it, I believe).

You can do it in a normal Acrobat form by using a Template object, which allows you to spawn copies of a page, and even lets you automatically rename the fields in it, so they are unique.

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    ajrogan81Author
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    April 24, 2019

    Hi thank you for your reply.
    How would I go about doing this please...is there a tutorial I could follow that you know of?

    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    April 25, 2019

    Thank you for your quick replies everyone, I think I have managed it, just need to work out how to script it so that it doesn't go to the end of the document.

    How would I go about placing it after page 4, would this work:

    var expTplt = getTemplate("tpltFormTemplate01");

    expTplt.spawn(numPages-4,true,false);

    ???


    No, that will place it after the fourth page from the end of the file. Replace "numPages-4" with "3" (without the quotes) to achieve that.

    Remember the page number is zero-based.

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