Converting HTML Forms to PDF - Field Names

When I use Adobe 8 to convert and HTML form to PDF all the field names in the resulting PDF have the crazy long names that are jumble of letters and numbers. So I always have to go back through and manually rename every field because I'm using another program to autopopulate the fields with data. Is there any way to get Acrobat to automatically name the fields in the PDF the same as they are named in the form either using the "name" or "id" properties of the HTML fields? I don't understand why this isn't the default behaviour to begin with.

The reason this is done is due to a fundamental difference between HTML forms and Acrobat forms. In HTML forms, fields with the same name do not necessarily share the same value, whereas in Acrobat forms they do.
In the conversion process, Acrobat gives each field a unique name, but also sets a field's mapping name to the name the field had in the original HTML form. This is so that if the PDF form is used to submit as "HTML", then the original field names will be used and any server process that is capable of dealing with the HTML form is capable of dealing with the resulting PDF form. So be aware that if you want to use your modified form to submit to a web server using the "HTML" format, the new field names that you set will not be used. What will be used are the hidden mapping names.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's anything you can do about any of this to make it work like you want.
George

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var fieldTypeArray = new Array();
var pageNumArray = new Array();
var fieldRectArray = new Array();
var fieldValueArray = new Array();
var borderStyleArray = new Array();
var borderColorArray = new Array();
var borderThicknessArray = new Array();
var fillColorArray = new Array();
var textColorArray = new Array();
var textFontArray = new Array();
var textSizeArray = new Array();
var textAlignmentArray = new Array();
var textMultilineArray = new Array();
var checkmarkStyleArray = new Array();
var radiowidgetNumArray = new Array();
var radiowidgetRectArray = new Array();
var radiowidgetPageNumArray = new Array();
//Get the properties of all the current fields, including widgets.
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Just saw this topic on the forum,
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