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November 16, 2018
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PDF form - field contents cut on export

  • November 16, 2018
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Dear all,

I've created a PDF form mit Acrobat Pro DC. Since form fields (i.e. multi-line text boxes) cannot automatically grow according to the content, overflowing text can be accessed by using the "+" icon and scroll bar.

When trying to export the PDF to different file formats, the exported file unfortunately only contains the visible content of the textbox - everything that is not visible is cut.

Is there a way to achieve that all data is being exported?

Thx!

Hannes

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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November 16, 2018

I'm assuming you're exporting to something like an image file, because if

you export it to a text file then the full value should be present.

If that's the case then you can set the font size of the field to Auto, to

make sure the full content is displayed.

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VHWPEAuthor
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November 20, 2018

Actually I've tried different exports but not as an image. I need the contents of the form fields as text (ideally RTF) after export.

Here is an example what happens: Say the lines represent the upper and lower textbox frame - in the PDF, the text between these lines is visible, by clicking and scrolling also the rest of the text. After export, everything below the lower line is not exported:

---------------------------------------------------------------

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing

and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been

the industry's standard dummy text ever since the

---------------------------------------------------------------

1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of

type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

Setting the font size to auto is not an option by request.

Thx!

try67
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try67Community Expert
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November 20, 2018

Apparently I can only provide you with screenshots here:

Here's the PDF (you can see how the text overflows):

And here is the Word document after export (I've enlarged the frame a bit so you can see that there's no text):


Use Dropbox, Google Drive, Adobe Cloud, etc., to share the file. Screenshots don't help us much... Also, describe in detail how are you converting the file from PDF to Word.

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