Prepare form wizard missing simple fields

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January 7, 2019
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I have a very simple employment application that needs Prepare Form Wizard. After the fill form is complete is missing a lot of really simple fields like First name, Last, etc. I really don't want to have to spend my afternoon and evening drawing text boxes so I can fill out this application in a nice presentable way. Is there a fix for this?

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try67

Community Expert

Not really, no. If you want to have form fields in your PDF file you'll need to do most of the work yourself.

The wizard can offer a good starting point, but the results from using it will never be perfect.

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MissNikitaAuthor

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That is so disappointing. I used this same tool in the past on much more complicated PDFs and it always created every field nearly everytime. Why would a very simple application cause it to choke? So much for productivity.

try67

Community Expert

We can't know exactly how this tool works, as Adobe doesn't publish the algorithm behind it. The results depend a lot on how the file was originally created.

It's possible to add fields using a script, but it must have something to rely on in order to know where to add them. For example, I've developed this (paid-for) tool that will reliably add check-box or radio-button fields if you use the Wingdings font to add them to your original file: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat/Reader -- Convert Wingdings To Fields

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