Why is the prepare form function not filling the entire PDF form with fillable boxes?

Question

I am having troubles with making this form a PDF fillable form as every page other than page 1 is not getting filled in fully. I am using the prepare form option and it fills the first page out great but then on the other 4 pages it is only auto filling the one column. Is there a setting that I need to change for this to fill the entire form with fill boxes?

try67 · Answer

Because it's not perfect, and no, there's no setting. You can play around with the layout of the original, but the results of the fields detection wizard are never going to be perfect. Consider it a starting point for creating the rest of the fields, for example using the Create Multiple Fields command.

Another option is to use a script to create them, but then it has to be based on something the script can identify, which for the most part is text. For example, I've created (paid-for) tools that can convert sequences of underscore characters into text fields and various Wingdings characters to check-boxes or radio-buttons, and that works with 100% accuracy.

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http://try67.blogspot.com/2015/09/acrobatreader-convert-wingdings-to.html

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