Importing Interactive Forms and Buttons into new/other PDFs in Acrobat
Hi all!
I work with typesetting of translated InDesign files and sometimes I got interactive PDF sources with forms and buttons created only in Acrobat. The translation should match 100% the source PDF visual, so I end up copying and pasting all forms and buttons page by page, manually.
I know there's the "replace pages" trick, but it isn't great for this case as it always retains not only the form fields, but also the hyperlinks. Even if I delete the hyperlinks, it will still not be helpful as the replace pages don't bring hyperlinks with the new translated content! So this method can be dangerous as the translated PDF may contain hyperlinks to the localized web pages, in other words, they need to stay as they are.
Is there any way or script to copy/import all the interactive buttons and forms (only, not hyperlinks) to the new translated PDF?
Acrobat doesn't really seem to have a native way to do so. The Prepare Form mode only allows to "Create Multiple Copies..." within the same document, and even if I try to temporarily combine both source and target PDF, it would still be time-consuming and even slower than manually copying and pasting as I would have to set each page from an to, moreover, the fields would not retain the original name, and for translation, this is a must, as some javascript action relies on the original field name.
So this is a big challenge! Hoping that copy and paste isn't the only solution for now.
TIA
