First off let's start by saying I cannot stand the forcing of a portfolio when trying to combine a pdf. I have all my fillable forms distributed to people to fill out and I collect back and save them as different file names. I want to be able to combine them into a single PDF, AS I HAVE ALWAYS DONE, until today when I tried and it informed me "any form fields that have the same name in the merged documents are not merged into one field" if you want these valued fields to be unique, then you need to create a PDF Porfolio" and when I clicked NO THANKS it just took the first form that was filled and duplicated it about 90 times. Gosh how helpful that was.
So I did it again and created the portfolio. It is AWFUL. It takes a simple quick procedure and hacks it up into something I will have to click 234 different times to view the whole document, vs the scrolling feature that was really helpful. I want nothing to do with this. Whoever created this feature should be pushed off a cliff ASAP, but I digress.
No amount of unchecking the "create portfolio" fixes it. So since I am stuck with this new feature, until the person who decided it was swell combusts, I guess my question is is there anyway to get around it?
I don't know what any of the options really mean as far as PDF/A,X,E and how they would apply. I am not sure if just printing to a PDF to eliminate the form fields would help.
I just know I have never been so frustrated with a company taking a basic simple tool and ruining it by forcing you to create a file that has less easy of organization and viewing across the board.
If anyone has any ideas about how to eliminate this "enhancement" or work around it so I can just simply combine my files like normal I would appreciate it.
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