Overlapping text in form fields
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Hi all,
I am having issues with a PDF form I created. When users are filling out the form fields, several of them are showing duplicate text, overlapping when they save/print. I checked the form for form fields with duplicate names but can't find any. Any idea why the text is duplicating like this and how to fix it?
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Can you share the file?
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You created (accidentally, probably) multiple copies of the same field one on top of another. Delete all copies but one.
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Here is the file. In form edit view, I'm not seeing duplicate/extra fields, but maybe I am not looking in the right place.
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Very strange. Did you open the file in Preview, or some other non-Adobe PDF viewer, by any chance?
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It might have been opened in preview by the user filling it out, but I'm not sure. Could that cause issues with duplicate text? It's weird because some fields are affected and some aren't.
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Preview is known to be very buggy and to corrupt PDF forms just by opening them, so yes, that is possible.
There's something in the field's properties that keeps those texts, even if their default option is cleared, and the form is reset. I would say the file is corrupt.

