Acrobat Fields Issues

[j_e_peterson]

I'm having two issues:

1. I've created fields on a document. When I close and re-open it some of the fields are missing. Any idea why?

2. Adobe is showing that I have more than one field with the same name on the document, but it is not showing me where these same named fields are in the Tab Order sort, only in the Alphabetical Order sort, and I cannot find these identically named fields ANYWHERE on the document. How do I address this?

[gkaiseril]

Adobe is not a program. What program are you using to create your form?

Are you sure you do not have these duplicate fields stacked one on top of each other?

It is possible that the field are located outside of the visible page.

You can highlight the duplicate name, right mouse click and delete the field using the pop-up menu.

[George_Johnson]

To find out where the fields are, you can run the following code in the interactive JavaScript console (Ctrl+J):

getField("mystery_field").page;

but use that actual field name. Press Ctrl+Enter to run the code. It might show something like:

1,3

Which indicates the field is on the second and fourth page. if it shows -1, it means the field is on a hidden template page.

[j_e_peterson]

That was really helpful. Thank you! Running the scripts show that I do in fact have fields on a hidden template page, which might be why I cannot simply select and delete them. Do you know how to remove fields from a hidden template page?

[George_Johnson]

You'd first have to make the hidden template page visible and you'll be able to work with them normally. If you don't know how to do that, what version of Acrobat are you using?

[j_e_peterson]

I do not know how to do that. I am using Acrobat Pro 9 (version 9.5.5).

[George_Johnson]

In Acrobat 9 you'd select: Advanced > Document Processing > Page Templates

This will display the Page Templates dialog where you'll be able to click the little square to the left of the template name to unhide it. It will be added as the last page of the document, so just go to that page and edit the fields as needed.

[j_e_peterson]

I re-confirmed that there are hidden pages:

Because when I pull up the Page Templates dialog it does not show that there are any, at least that is what I assume the blank square area on the left-hand side means:

Does mean there is a hidden page I cannot access?

[George_Johnson]

That's strange, because what that shows is there are no template pages, hidden or visible. To figure out what's going on I'd need to look at the PDF myself. I'd be happy to take a look if you're able to email it to me: acroscript at gmail dot com