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pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Elysiana on 22 Mar 2011, 20:18 ---I guess I just need to look into putting a newer version of Acrobat on my computer. In the meantime, I may just have to suck it up and change the ones that are done wrong.
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It's not a matter of version - AcroForms is the original, and at Acrobat 7 they added LiveCycle Editor to the package as a fully-functional and integrated demo of the alternative because of its other properties; however, it simply lacks the functionality you want.  So your choice is to do without the validation or to throw the form you've made away and start again using the older technology which maybe works for you.

Elysiana:
Ohhh gotcha. Wait... so they removed some functionality for the handy little editor they added that was supposed to make everyone's lives easier? Go team.

Considering they have a handy little button that you can click to change a regular field into a numbers-only field, you'd think they'd have one for this.

Oh well. Thank you again, I really appreciate it!

pwhodges:
LiveCycle is a separate product; and the form designer was sort-of shoehorned into Acrobat and the PDF format, presumably to try to pull in users to the whole LiveCycle suite.  LiveCycle has some nice features that AcroForms don't offer, but also misses some features as we have just seen.  If you are not using any of the LiveCycle form features, then redoing your form in "pure" Acrobat is your way forward.

snalin:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 22 Mar 2011, 16:25 --- and others are hard to find because everything on the entire Internet  starts with the presumption of some knowledge you don't have? 

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Or it starts with the presumption that you know nothing at all.

The first semester of programming was such a bitch since every tutorial either went from "this is how you create a "hello world" app" and outwards from that, or started with the presumption that you have been working in the field for three years and are looking for something that's more specific than the api. Same problem with both php/html and with bash scrips.

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