I created a form document, but all of the fields needed did not convert to fillable fields. There seems to be a patterm of 4 lines fillable, 1 line not. The reports I need to convert are quite long, some up to 500 pages, so it is not practical to add the

[sue20]

The report I am trying to convert to a form is a sales order planner.  It lists the customer's previous items and quantities ordered, with 2 fields per line for the customer to enter their current inventory and the amount they would like to reorder.  the form looks beautiful, except it skips every 5th line for some reason and doesn't make the needed fields usable. I can't figure out why it is doing this.  Some of the reports I will be converting are very long and it is not practical to manually add the needed fields before sending out the reports.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Also, on the bottom of each customer's page (sometimes they are multiple pages per customer depending on the quantity of previous items purchased), there is a place for additional notes and 2 lines of this area are not converting either.

[Bernd Alheit]

The form field auto detection is not perfect.

[sue20]

I was hoping there was maybe some kind of prep I could do to help it. I don't understand why the pattern.  It is the same through all the pages.

[gkaiseril]

copOne needs to look at why the form detector fails. Usually it is form some common issues. No lead in for form fields, lines or boxes not bold enough, fonts too small, fields over lapping.

Building form fields manually might not be as much work as one thinks if one uses the tools provided for building forms manually, like the create "multiple copies" or the use of templates.

If you are starting with a Word document, it is possible to use Apache OpenOffice.org Writer to add field control objects to the document and then export the modified document to a PDF form. But this would still be a big task.