Interlinked text areas in PDF book duplicates the inserted content

[matts95412005]

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Hey,

I just finished creating a Book with Indesign using a 60 separate interactive text field documents (basically a questionaire with text areas for answering).

The way I created it was once I had the first question, I duplicated the document and only changed the question text and description of the question (all using the same style for question header and question description).

The issue is that when I open it with Adobe Reader and enter text into one of the fields/answers, then save the inputted text (by using File > Save As and overwriting the existing document), it saves the text I placed in Answer 1 across all 60 text field areas.

It's almost as if they're interlinked (perhaps due to the style name being the same for the text areas?)

How can I overcome this issue?

Sincerely,

Matt

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

If this is a pdf form, each field has to be given a unique name. The normal procedure is to create the form in InDesign, export it as an interactive pdf, open it in Acrobat Pro, where it can be fine tuned.