Acrobat drop down limits?

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May 5, 2020
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Is there a limit to the number of items that can be stuffed into an Acrobat drop down box? I realize there are usability questions, but aside from that?

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JR Boulay

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"We know we'll have to find a polite way to tell them that such a dropdown will be unusable."

Unless the user can guess that the first letter of the item sought must be entered on the keyboard. 😉

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JR Boulay

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"There are hierarchical popup menus."

I think there is nothing better in this case:

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Thom Parker

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There are practical limits such as visibility, usability, and memory, but nothing in Acrobat will stop you from adding enough entries to crash Acrobat.

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sandral23942670Author

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Thanks for your quick reply. And it's worse than I let on. Our client is talking about a list of more than 1,500 items. We know we'll have to find a polite way to tell them that such a dropdown will be unusable. Whether or not it was even possible was our starting point. I read that multi-level dropdowns are possible, though it sounded like it requires some scripting. I'd still probably need about a dozen of those. Oh, man. Any suggestions come to mind?