Acrobat: NO paste in place??

I find it absurd that you cannot paste interactive or other elements in place and that they default to the center of the screen. This should ALWAYS be available and it was a feature in Ver. 6. Why on earth is is not there anymore?
Also, the interactive elements added to a document should easily be able to be copied to another document. PDFs get tons of revisions and I keep having to slowly, manually copy and paste the elements from the old doc to the new doc EVERY TIME THERE IS A REVISION.

The Acrobat way to handle different revisions is, as already mentioned, replacing the page (which keeps everything else in place).
There are cases where fields have to be copied from one document to another. If the page size and orientation of both documents are the same, you can also add a field of the size of the page, and copy this field with the ones you want to copy. The relative position of the fields remains as is, and you have properly transferred your fields.
This second procedure is often used to create a "clean" version of the form after long develpment with many intermediate versions.
Hope this can help.
Max Wyss.

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but unfunction, can you fix it?
thanks
Teetan

Hi,
Modifying your code - notice that function main() suppose to be
1. defined and
2. called
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