Adding pages to an Adobe form? PLEASE HELP!!

Question

Hey All,
Right now I'm working on a project for an engineering company. The gentleman in charge had two requirements.
1). "I want to have a form like the government has". Meaning
that he wants to be able to fill them out and then store
them. With the help of Adobe Designer 7 I was able to do
that.
2.) "I want the pages to move down like Word Perfect does."
Meaning that when the box fills up, the program that you
are doing data entry on simply moves down to another
page and allows you to fill it in.
I know this may sound kind of stupid but there is a reason for this madness. This is a quote form that this gentleman is using. If
he ever needs to print this form out. He needs to be able to see all of
the data that he has entered. From my experience, it seems that you can
enter all the data that you want and then when you fill up the text field. A scroll bar appears on the right hand side that allows you to move up and down in the text field to see what you have entered. But when you go to print, you only get what is seen in the text field.
Which of course is no good for my employer. Who, when he prints out this filled in form. Needs to be able to see ALL of the data that he has entered. To be honest, I am quite green with Adobe Designer and I could use the help.
Are you able to add new pages to an existing Adobe document?
If you are, how do you do it?
I have discovered one other option while messing around with Adobe Designer 7. In the "Insert" menu there is an option that says simply "button" when learning more about this interactive object. I learned that several are included in the "Insert" field. My question is, can I write a script that would allow me to use this button to add new pages when needed? Would this script be written in Java I take it?
Any help from Adobe guru's, newbys, etc would be wonderful. I would like to make this work. Thank you very much in advance.

Answer 1

I'm fairly new to Designer too, but I know the answer to your first question at least.
"1). 'I want to have a form like the government has.' Meaning that he wants to be able to fill them out and then store them. With the help of Adobe Designer 7 I was able to do that."
My guess is that he's referring to forms such as the 1040 form which allows people with just Acrobat Reader to complete AND save a form. The only way to do this is to have Adobe's Livecycle Reader Extensions. This is an "Enterprise" level (in other words: really expensive server-based) program. I talked to an Adobe rep and she said this program is generally based on the number of forms you want to enable, starting at $10,000 per document. Unfortunately Adobe's documentation on this is incredibly lacking. And the product info on Acrobat 7.0 Pro is (or was) very misleading when it says that with Designer you can enable documents to be completed and saved with Acrobat Reader, cause its not the case at all. End-users will need either Acrobat Elements, Acrobat Standard, or Acrobat Pro in order to be able to save a completed document.
As for a dynamic form that expands (and adds pages) as necessary depending on user input, that is something that you can do with Designer. Designer can create two types of forms, static and dynamic. The default type is static. If you have a form right now that is not expanding, then you need to save as and in the save as filetype dropdown select "Dynamic PDF Form File." Its important to note that a dynamic file cannot be created in any other program (such as Word, Excel or InDesign). The form has to be created from scratch in designer.