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MarkGilvey
Inspiring
April 24, 2021
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Corrupted text when pasted into form field

  • April 24, 2021
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I have pasted plain text into two fields in my document and it pastes as individual question marks in rectangles. You will see in the bottom field, I already have some red text entered into the field. If I continue to type, it will type correctly but if I paste text from the clipboard (plain text, or formatted text) it appears as missing characters. I've been using this form for several years but today, it started doing this nonsense.

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Correct answer JR Boulay

You cannot paste text in a field that uses the Rich Text Format option.

You must deactivate this option before pasting the text.

Tip: create a temporary text field, without the RTF option, and paste the text into this field. Then you can copy it again and paste it in the field in RTF format.

 

This is a bug that came with Acrobat X and has not been fixed since, despite several requests.

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JR Boulay
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JR BoulayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
April 24, 2021

You cannot paste text in a field that uses the Rich Text Format option.

You must deactivate this option before pasting the text.

Tip: create a temporary text field, without the RTF option, and paste the text into this field. Then you can copy it again and paste it in the field in RTF format.

 

This is a bug that came with Acrobat X and has not been fixed since, despite several requests.

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Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 24, 2021

What version of Adobe Acrobat? What Operating System?

MarkGilvey
Inspiring
April 24, 2021

JR Boulay nailed it, but as that is a work around, I'm on Mac OS 11.3.2

Acrobat: 

Architecture: x86_64

Build: 21.1.20149.430977

AGM: 4.30.106

CoolType: 5.14.5

JP2K: 1.2.3.48161