Combining blank fillable forms

I have created a fillable form and want to duplicate several copies of it into one multi page document - is this possible and if so how?
obviously i want to avoid the whole form field renaming issue and as it is a blank form dont want to flatten the fields.
i hoped that making them into a portfolio would do the trick but when i try i get a black screen and a message to update my flash to a version that supports acrobat and reader - i am running version 11.6.602.168

With Acrobat forms form fields with the same name and type will change together. This has how Acrobat forms have worked since they were introduced.

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Lose form data when combining PDF fillable forms

I would like to combine into one PDF document two completed form-fillable PDFs. The PDF forms have identical fields, but the data collected on the forms (from different users) is different, of course.
When I add the second form to the PDF document containing the first one, the data from the second form is erased and replaced by the data from the first.
So, I end up with a PDF document with two forms containing identical user data.
I suspect Acrobat is freaked out because the forms contain the same field names or something. I know I can solve this by making a new PDF from the form-fillable PDF--flattening the layers, in Photoshop-speak. Is there another way to solve the problem?

With Acrobat forms form fields with the same name and type will change together. This has how Acrobat forms have worked since they were introduced.

Fillable forms come back BLANK mainly from Mac Users

Hello,
I created a fillable form from scratch in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended version 9.3.2, using Adobe Livecycle Designer ES version 8.2.1. I'm on Windows XP. When I first created the form I saved it on the company server, but, I can't remember why, I had to save it on the desktop in order to distribute it (I'm not sure if this detail is important for the issue).
I sent the blank fillable form via email as an attachment to about 50 people (not in my organization) with the filename application_distributed.pdf. Knowing the population that received it, I would say that the majority of them filled it out in Adobe Reader. I asked them to fill it out, save it with a different name, and send it back to me.
Out of the 50 forms I got back, 40 came through fine, while the other 10 came back completely blank. 6 of these 10 people used a Mac computer (some of them said they were using "Preview", a Mac version of Adobe, according to them), a couple of them used a pc, and I wasn't able to find out about the other 2.
I sent the same form twice to a colleague who has both a pc and a Mac at home, and asked her to fill out the first one on her pc, and the 2nd one on her Mac, and to send them back to me in two separate emails. They both came back to me filled out perfectly.
I have been scratching my head trying to figure out what the common denominator is amongst the 10 people whose form came back blank... At the beginning, after I discovered that the first 3 people were Mac users, I thought maybe it was an operating system incompatibility issue, but when I started getting blank forms from pc users, I got more puzzled.
I was on the phone with Adobe Technical Support for a couple of hours on 5/18/2010, and they asked me to submit the form to them so they could look into it since they couldn't solve the problem by phone, but so far, 3 weeks later, I have not heard back from them.
Today I finally decided to go on this forum and ask for help. If anybody has any idea about what the issue might be and how to solve it, I would be eternally grateful.
Thank you!

That should work yes. Not to say that there isn't anything else that will cause this but it's the typical reason why it happens.
It shouldn't cause any conflicts in a Mac. At worst, Reader may want to open PDF's by default but they can easily switch that back by highlighting a PDF, choosing File>Get Info>Open with, choosing Preview and clicking "Change all". When I installed Reader, Mac Preview remained the default Reader until I told it to use Reader.
Mac and Windows users can get the reader at http://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=BUIGO. It will detect their OS and give them the correct download.
One thing, if they decide to keep Preview as their default PDF Reader then they will have to actually open Reader and use File>Open to open PDF's in Reader.

Can't combine a IRS fillable form pdf with Acrobat XI

In past years I have combined an IRS fillable form pdf with attachments before printing and archiving.
However, this year I contine to get an error message.
Not sure if it is XI vs X or new type of pdf by IRS but I'm a Acrobat relative beginner and need some assist.
Maybe just operator error.
This is the dialog that I keep getting:
Any tips greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Thank you.
Yes, it is created by Adobe LCD ES 8.2.
I don't see the type of document. Probably staring at me. Sorry.
Can I convert or somehow get around this?
Last year's looks to be the same type of animal but I was using Acrobat X. Would that make a difference?
This beginner, old beginner , appreciates the help.

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I am using an old version of Acrobat- Acrobat9 Pro. I have created a number of fillable forms to streamline the admin part of a project I am doing. The forms work fine to complete and save. But when I email them to someone, more than half the time they come through as blank. Any idea about how to fix this?

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I have Adobe Standard and created a fillable form. When some people try and save this doc, it only saves as the blank form and not what they had filled in. Why is this happening?

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Fillable form appears blank when completed

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Check this:
http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/2009/11/script_to_fix_mac_osx_previewa.html
If the user fills out the form using Preview on a Mac (instead of Acrobat/Reader), I believe it will exhibit the symptoms you describe. The following thread is where I got that link (GKeiseril posted it in the 4th message) although it may not have been the issue for the poster who started that discussion:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1019513?tstart=30

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I just got XI Pro ... I've never had a pro version before. A co-worker who has used pro for ages (but has an older version) showed me how to make it so that a PDF filled form could be saved by another user. However, in the version I have it seems that the ability for another user to save a PDF filled form is automatic ... I can't figure out how to shut it off.
Our PDF fillable forms will be on our website, but we DO NOT WANT a user to be able to save the filled or the blank form. Looking for a PRINT-ONLY option once it's been filled out.
Anyone have any ideas??
Thanks!

This was recent;y discussed here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5881211
There was a major change made with Reader 11 that allows it to save filled-in forms, add all sorts of comments/markups, and some other things without the document needing to be Reader-enabled, unlike all previous versions. This is what you're noticing. So the best you can do is attempt to clear the fields when the document is saved and/or when it's opened.

How do I get the text in a fillable form to print?

I have a unique problem in that I frequently use fillable forms downloaded from one particular site (court forms). All of the forms I can fill in and print without a problem...except for one. I can fill it out, save it, but when it prints, it prints out blank. I assume there is somet mistake with this particular form that the permissions are set to not allow the text to print, but I can't figure out how or if I can change that. Again, it's only with this one form (see link below). I have no such problem with any other fillable PDF on this or any other site.
http://www.courts.state.hi.us/docs/form/hawaii/3FP272.pdf
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Hello everybody. I need to create a fillable form and then generate a report using numbers. You know, for example if you have customers, I need to be able to write the usual , name, last name, address, and some other details and then using a standard letter I would like the form to be able to populate these fields automatically in a standard pre formatted letter by our company and then be able to print it.
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Also download the help files for Numbers and Pages here:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#
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Thanks for explaining that. I wish I had "Locked" all the fields before I started then, since I did get somehow get a couple of them rearranged by accident and it took some (not a lot) of work to get them back in the proper order.
For the present file, which I am not adding captions to, how would I set the "read only' property? I looked around in the Tools area and the only thing that looked possible that I found was Protection; Restrict Editing but I didn't go farther yet because it wanted me to set a password before proceeding.
Is it possible to make individual fields "Read Only" rather than the whole document?
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This allowed me to drag the image of my signature to the line on the form where I am supposed to sign it, and place it there. Then when I save the form with that signature on it, if I open it again and go to Forms Edit, I get a message that the form contains no Form Fields, and asks it I want Acrobat to detect fields for me. If I choose yes, it then detects fields that were not previously filled in, but not the fields in which I had placed default entries before saving it.
I see where you mean about Signature on the left pane, but if I open that after loading a PDF that I signed using the above procedure, it detects no signature. So the "Digital Signature" you mention must not be the image of the signature like I am using. So if I want to make the image of my signature into a "Digital Signature" that can be verified, do I have to go to some third party paid procedure like Verisign or EchoSign or something or can I somehow self certify the image of my signature?
I notice, as a side issue, that if I upload the blank unmodified PDF Form to Acrobat.com, it lets me fill it out and saves the file with a "form" extension, and they have a menu choice to Sign, but if you choose that you just get a box in which it expects you to draw your signature with your finger or a stylus I guess, but the result doesn't look much like my signature, and then if you save it to the computer, it does save it as a PDF file, but if you try to print it, the printed document is blank, so that is kind of useless.
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Can I fix the form once they send it to me or do I need to adjust the original fillable pdf? Thanks in advance.

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If I understand correctly, you've converted a file and now want to download it and remove it from your Acrobat.com account. Is that correct? What happens when you try to download it from https://cloud.acrobat.com/files? Do you get an error?
Once you've downloaded it, you can delete it from your account by selecting it and clicking the trash can icon.
Please let us know how it goes.
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Sara

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