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A Question about PDF Fillable Form Drop Down Box

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Jan 21, 2025 Jan 21, 2025

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Hi,

A newbie here.  I am creating a fillable form with five drop downs (each containing same list).  The drop down list has some 120 or so values (just imagine a list of US states and names of all the countries in the Americas). I have a couple of questions from that first time experience and would appreciate forum members advise:

(1) Is possible to enter the list (of items in drop down) via a batch file? I would avoid typing each item individually five times in Properties.

(2) Is there a limit on number of items a drop down box can accomodate?

(3) For the first box I tried entering manually. After around 78 or so, the system would not let me enter more. When I previewed it, at size 8, the system would only display 76 items. If I increase the font size to 10, the number of items displayed goes down. Any suggestion, how can I enter more?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

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Jan 21, 2025 Jan 21, 2025

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I created a (paid for) tool that allows you to copy and paste a column from Excel to fill the dropdown with entries.  I have used it to load 1000+ entries without issue.

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I've entered many more entries into a dropdown, but there is a limit. 

Here is a free tool for doing a cut and paste entry into a dropdown. This can also be done with an automation script, but that's more complicated. 

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Free-Sample-PDF-Files-with-scripts.cfm

 

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting
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