using form-fields as "document-assembly"

[Guest]

I haven't worked with form-fields yet (except to fill out a few tax forms).  Is there a PDF form field type that can accept free-form text of variable length, a phrase, or perhaps a sentence, or even a few sentences spanning several lines, so that these placeholders in the text could be dynamically replaced with content, and the document would then reflow/repaginate etc? 

[George_Johnson]

No, not with a form created in Acrobat. Dynamic XFA forms created with LiveCycle Designer allow for this type thing though, but even then it's clumsy to set up if you want fields within a paragraph, as opposed to a single field that contains one or more paragraphs.

[Guest]

Thank you for replying to my question. 

Could Life Cycle Designer be used to assemble a document (e.g. a contract or agreement) from the necessary sentences and paragraphs, on an ad hoc basis, and then be saved as an interactive PDF which has only one interactive field, a signature field?

Can Acrobat open and read a PDF created by LCD?

[George_Johnson]

For the best response, I'd suggest that you ask in the LiveCycle Designer forum and include more details about the specific behavior you're looking for. LiveCycle Designer

PDF forms created with LiveCycle Designer will work with Acrobat and Reader, but if they need to be savable with Reader, then they must be Reader-enabled. You can do this with Acrobat or LiveCycle Reader Extensions.