Acrobat DC 21.005.20048 (Win10):
Actions taken:
- Starting a PDF Form from scratch
- Adding text with text-tool
- Adding text-field
- Adding checkbox
Result:
Text and any other object cannot be selected at the same time, neither by box-select nor by SHIFT or CTRL.
Text does not appear in "Fields" list and can thus also not be selected there.
- Cannot align text with fields or other objects
(Different text selected does not even promt the alignment-options)
- Cannot move text with fields

Proposal:
- Make text selectable together with fields
- Create a "label" object, which acts like a field, but can only be edited by the creator / in "Prepare Form" mode.

Currently you have to use Java Script to create a dropdown list that includes an item with a null (blank) export value. There is not way to add a null value to the list in the Prepare Forms - Dropdown Properties user interface. You can create a list item that looks blank by using the space bar, but that is not the same as null and will generate an error when importing the data into our database (where true null is an acceptable entry, but any text entries that don't match the validation list are not, and the entire record will be rejected). Those of us who don't create a lot of forms need a way to add a null value item through the user interface instead of having to learn to use Java.

I am currently stuck on a project here due to the sometimes unpredictable and difficult to work with form field auto detection in Acrobat. I am designing a rather complex form in InDesign and exporting the PDF to have the form fields auto-generated in Acrobat.
Radio Buttons in particular are the trickiest to work with because of their demanding conditions. It is leading to a frustrating end-user experience when the radio button form fields get generated as circular check boxes which is intuitive and confusing. It seems to unexpectedly incorrectly interpret them as check boxes in some cases, and correctly interpret them in other cases even though the conditions are similar.
The Radio Button detection should be improved for more consistent results.

1. Renaming Date Type field changes it to Text Type

Issue: Renaming any Date type field when using "prepare form" in Adobe Pro, causes the field to be changed to a Text Type field. This causes issues with errors when uploading/downloading the form.

1. Replication Steps:
   Open the Sample Document attached in Adobe Pro
   Click Tools > Forms & Signatures > Prepare Form
   This should load the open form into the prepare form tools
   Right click on the "Date" Field
   Click 'Rename Field'
   Change the name to: Date (no "afdate" suffix)
   Hit Enter
   See in the right menu, the field has changed from a Date Type to Text Type.
   Right click the field again
   Click 'Rename Field'
   add the suffix: afdate to the field name
   Hit Enter
   See on the Right menu the field had changed back to Date Type

2. Environment:
   Windows 10 Pro
   Version 20H2
   OS Build 19042.867
   Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0
   Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
   Version 2021.001.20155

3. Expected Result: Date fields should remain Date Type when they are renamed

4. Observed Result: Date fields are changing field type when they are renamed to remove the "afdate" suffix

Hello, I was wondering if you all could make a system for Excel or CSV data to be imported into interactive elements like combo boxes and list boxes. Its a real pain to manually input an array of items one at a time, and also not have the ability to edit them in their place. The current process requires deleting an element in the list, and retyping it when updating the list. Imagine if having to make a combo box that included all 50 states or capitals of every country.
I also ask for this a feature in Indesign, but I thought maybe Indesign is limited by what Acrobat supports, so I came to ask at the source.

Using PDF XFA forms created with Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES4. Data stored in a Microsoft Access database is converted to an XML file and then imported into a blank PDF XFA form using importXFAData. My workgroup has been using this feature for over three years with huge success/satisfaction. With the recent update, the xml import stopped working leaving the PDF form fields blank. Any work around or update planned?

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Version 2020.013.20074
Microsoft Access 2016 with VBA Version 7.1.1108
VB code clip:
Dim AcroApp As Object
Dim theForm As Object
Dim jso As Object
Set AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set theForm = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
theForm.Open myBlank 'open the blank PDF form with path=myBlank
set jso = theForm.GetJSObject
jso.importXFAData myFile 'import the xml file located at path=myFile

Just like text boxes, check boxes, dropdown lists, etc are available controls to add to a form, it would be great to have a slider control as well. This control should be able to be horizontal or vertical, specify the default location of the slider, specify min and max values for a 0 - 100 percentage of the slider and assign a value to the percentage starting at the min to the max (IE 0% of the slider could be a value of 0 and a value of 100% could be 500 and a value of 50% would be 250 in this case. The form designer could then take the value for this control and perform math calulations on it like add it to other values, etc.

Problem: When creating a fillable form, you either have to go in order of fields you create or in order of field creation number. When I receive forms that have already been given a great deal of time, the tabbing functionality is not ideal due to the function obeying the rule of field creation/ purposeful placing in the fields scrollbar. This becomes a chore when dealing with hundreds of fields. Ideally at this moment you want to scrap the whole creation and begin in a more formal and tedious recreation.

Solution: Multiple click/drag selectable field grouping. Where you can form the line up of fillable fields you want to correct/ customize, order from Horizontal/ Vertical, Tabbing formation L-R. Order them in the selectable fields, and not have to scroll through the fields option to drag to correct placement/ redo the field numbering.

This could be added in the side panel.

When I use the Create Multiple Copies command, the Overall Size values are calculated differently depending on the zoom % of the document I’m working on. Which makes predictability of the width / height area completely impossible.

It’s also has something to do with the resolution of the monitor. On my MacBookPro, I need to setup my Zoom to 66% to get a practical math logic. On my Old Surface Pro 3, it need to be 43.2%.

This juggling of math make this feature really close to useless.

Tell me, what is Acrobat's mathematical logic here? And how can I use this features precisely?

Make that size reading/display the physical size in the document, instead of linking it to % Zoom and/or monitor resolution.