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August 31, 2023
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Fillable Form Text Field changing text content when clicking in field

  • August 31, 2023
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I have a fillable form and the text that is visible when you look at the form changes when you click in the field. It looks like perhaps old text is in the field but it won't let me remove what is showing up. If I click in the field and type it looks fine, but once I click somewhere else on the form the old text shows up and that is what prints. 

 you can see that it changes if you click in the fillable form section.

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Participant
August 31, 2023

I just double checked that it showed up and I couldn't tell it was doing it when I viewed but I did see the form section when I downloaded .. 😞 

Thom Parker
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Community Expert
August 31, 2023

You have a seriously malformed PDF form. How did you enter the text into the form field? 

The field appearance does not match the field value. This would only happen if the PDF were created or modified by a non-compliant PDF tool/viewer. But besides this, there are a large number of disconnected form fields. Which is also something that would only be done by a non-compliant PDF tool/viewer. 

 

 

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