Auto delete blank spaces in a pdf

Question

Hello,I have a pdf Form built in Adobe Acrobat. The form is made from fields, such as radio buttons and text fields. In the middle of a page is a question with 2 radio buttons - yes and no. If yes, text_box_1 appears, if no the text_box1 is hidden, but it remains a big blank space in the middle of the page. After the text box, there are multiple other fields, for example checkbutton_1, checkbutton_2, text_field. I want that all the fields below the blank space to be automate moved up, so after filling the form, the user won't have big blank spaces in the middle of the page. Is it possible to do this with a script in Adobe? Thank you for any help!

PDF Automation Station · Answer

Yes, you can change the rect property of the fields. For example, this script will move a field up by 2 inches:

var rc=this.getField("Text").rect;

this.getField("Text").rect=[rc[0], rc[1] + 2*72, rc[2], rc[3] + 2*72];

One inch is 72 points, so moving up 3 inches would be 3*72, etc. You can create an array of field names then loop through the array and move all the fields up by a set number of points.

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