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How to prevent text boxes from being separated after saving?

New Here ,
Aug 15, 2022 Aug 15, 2022

I am making an invoice, and to make it very easy to edit when I come back to it, I set up the text boxes on a column, with multiple new lines in between them, however when I save the PDF it splits the single text boxes into multiple text boxes, making it more difficult to edit them.

Before saving:

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After Saving:

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Is there some setting I can change to stop this from happening? I want the PDFs to be saved in the way that they were created.



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Community Expert ,
Aug 15, 2022 Aug 15, 2022

This is an inappropiate use of Acrobat and PDF. A PDF is not a word document. The content is not meant to be edited. 

To solve this issue, use form fields where data needs to be entered. 

 

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting
Use the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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Community Expert ,
Oct 29, 2024 Oct 29, 2024

The correct way to do this is to add a text markup annotation, Not to edit the page content. 

There are ways to automate this process.  I've written tools that automatically adds numbers that have been circled and place a stamp or text box on the PDF next to the numbers. 

For example:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Paper-Tape-Calculator-Description.cfm

 

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting
Use the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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