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SHEAU30034806sz65
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August 19, 2025
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Saving Fillable form as Template & duplicating

  • August 19, 2025
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Hello

 

Am trying to save a fillable form as template so we can insert/populate more of the same form in a file as multiple blank pages but to-date cannot find the template or use it when we've supposedly added in Page Template.

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Thom Parker
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Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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August 19, 2025

Please outline exactly how you would like your form to work.  

An entire PDF form cannot be a "Page Template".  But individual pages within a PDF form can be made in to "Page Templates". It sounds like you would like a page in your form to be a template page, that can then be repeatedly inserted into the form. Is that correct?  

If so, then you'll find the page template tool in the "Organize Pages" toolset. 

 

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    SHEAU30034806sz65Author
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    August 20, 2025
    Hello Thom

    Yes you are right. In fact, I've been reading some of your previous posts but I'm stucked in how to spawn the template thereafter as I cannot see/find it even after going through "Page Template". What happened after saving the template? How do we extract/spawn from the template? When we open the file where we'd like to populate a couple of the fillable page (which has been saved as Page Template), can't see how/where we can find the template.

    Regards
    Sabrina
    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    August 20, 2025

    Spawning a copy of the Template requires using a script. This code will spawn a Template called "MyTemplate" as the last page of the file, with unique field names:

     

    this.getTemplate("MyTemplate").spawn(this.numPages, true, false);

     

    However, be aware that although the fields are uniquely named, they will have the same values as the original fields on the Template page, so it might be a good idea to clear them, but that will require a more complex script (or to hide the Template page so the fields in it are always empty).

     

    Edited: Fixed small mistake in the code.

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