PDF Form _ Text Field Name differen't

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April 10, 2019
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I have a 50 page document. Each page has the same exact content on it, however i need the text fields on each page named differently so that the text doesn't duplicate through the entire document. Is there a way to do that without having to do it one by one?

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Thom Parker

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A template is an excellent way to do this, but it does give you necessarily long field names.

Since you have to write a script to access all the fields anyway, another technique is to write a script to copy fields from one page to all the other pages with your own naming convention. This is the method I use most.

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sassy01ssAuthor

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I have spent hours changing each fields name, and still have a long way to go. You say i dont have to do this by just doing a script? How do i do that?????

TᴀW

Legend

Do you care what the fields' names are, or is anything ok so long as it's unique?

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gkaiseril

Inspiring

When I encounter this, I use a template of the form to spawn new pages as needed and set the script to rename the fields. This will result in a name with format of "P#.templateName.fieldname, A Lesson in Templates. You will still need to copy and move the fields as needed, but you can rename the by using the high level "P#." value.

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