Exporting list boxes to PDF

I am trying to create a form that has two drop-down (list)boxes. One of them contains five choices, the other 52 (state abbreviations, etc.). I can get the smaller of the two to work just fine, but the other just displays a small square with an X. I have checked all the settings, and they are all identical. The font size is 10 pt and the boxes are 14 pt high. Going between the two boxes, I cannot see any difference in the settings. Is there something about putting so many choices in the list that creates problems? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I ended up finding the answer I needed. The problem was that I was using a list box from InDesign when I should have been using a combo box. The reason the list box did not work (I believe) was because the length of the entries in the box exceeded the length of the page. It seems that a combo box allows this, while a list box does not. If anyone else is having a similar problem, try using a combo box instead.

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I have exported to an interactive PDF which contains radio buttons, text fields, combo boxes and list boxes. This form is to be viewed on an iPhone 5 in Adobe Reader. All the form objects work except for the combo/list boxes. They appear and a selection can be made but the selection is not displayed in the box. I have tried to enlarge the box, thinking it was too small to display the text.
I have tested it on an Ipad 3 and an android phone and it doesnt work but it does work on a desktop. The reader app is up-to-date on all devices. This is how it displays (sorry about the quality). The option within the list box are "nothing" ie space, Y and N. Before a selection is made the arrow is displayed but after a selection is made the box is blank.
Can someone please tell me if there is a compatibility issue or a work around for this problem.
Thanks!
Gemma

One more thing: There is a workaround for those who own Acrobat for Windows or Mac. You should be able to open forms with this problem in Acrobat, modify the default values in these fields, return the default values in those fields to their desired state and then resave the document from Acrobat (windows or mac). This forces Acrobat to save the fields in a way that the mobile Readers can properly display and edit. While we absolutely should fix the bug to properly display fields created by InDesign, this workaround may be useful for others so I am posting it here.

How can I export multiple selections in a list box into a .csv file?

Hi all, I've created a form in Acrobat X with a list box enabled for multiple selections. When I try to export the filled out form into a .csv file, only the first selection shows up. Can anyone help me figure out how to get all selections to export? Thanks!

Thank you for your quick response!
Once a recipient fills out the form (which has two questions with list boxes and multiple selection enabled) they send the completed form back to me. When I open the completed form, I am given the option add the completed form to a reponse file which was set up when I distributed the form. When I open the reponse file, it lists all of the responses in rows, and the values that were chosen in the form are arranged in columns. In this file, the list boxe columns have multiple values, separated by commas (which is what I'm looking for). At this point there is an option to export into a .csv file or an .xml file. If I choose the .csv file and open in excel, only the first selection shows in the list box column rather than all selections that were initially made by the responder.

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select. Now, I have the menu box in a form. Selecting a PDF, then
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"MontanaBill" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:f3sb74$fm7$[email protected]..
>I would like to be able to have site visitors view a list
of PDF's in a
> menu/list box and then be able to open the PDF they
select. Now, I have
> the
> menu box in a form. Selecting a PDF, then clicking the
forms submit
> button,
> brings up another form. the second form shows the record
(the PDF which
> was
> selected) - and clicking the submit button brings up the
PDF. I would
> like it
> to be a one-click process versus what I have now.
> I don't know what code to palce for the 'action'
attached to the first
> submit
> button.
> I would appreciate any help. I am using ASP js.
> Thanks
>

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I have exported to an interactive PDF which contains radio buttons, text fields, combo boxes and list boxes. This form is to be viewed on an iPhone in Adobe Reader. All the form objects work except for the combo/list boxes. They appear and a selection can be made but the selection is not displayed in the box. I have tried to enlarge the box, thinking it was too small to display the text.
Can someone please tell me if there is a compatibility issue or a work around for this problem.
Thanks!
Gemma

I tested one of my interactive PDF forms, and it works fine in Reader on iPhone 5. Here is what a list box looks like:
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I find way for this on adobe blog. I am so stupid that I miss this "choose pages" button!!! You can combine more files and in list select pdf, and choose which pages from individual doc you want. Great
http://blogs.adobe.com/educationleaders/2008/05/extracting_non_sequential_page.html

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http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bbda6ea/9
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this.ui.choiceList.open = "multiSelect";
this.rawValue = "-1";
In the invisible Textbox preSubmit event, I use this code:
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[email protected] wrote:
> Note that this will only work if the text and value assigned to an item in the list box are the same as well as only work in the single-selection case.
>
> xfa.event.newText will only be set to the item text of the item which was clicked by the mouse. If an item's value differs from its text (e.g. you have an item named "Vegetables" with a value of "1"), xfa.event.newText will be set to "Vegetables", not "1". Although you can determine that the value of the new selected item is "1" by using this.boundItem(xfa.event.newText), you can't determine the value of all items that were selected.
>
> In a multi-select list box, simply using xfa.event.newText won't work in all cases because even when the user shift-clicks an item to select all items from the last selected item to the item clicked, xfa.event.newText will still only be set to the item that was clicked as opposed to being, for example, a newLine-delimited string of all items that were selected as a result of the shift-click.
>
> Although we shouldn't have to be calling this.saveXML() prior to retrieving this.rawValue, it's the only way we've found to successfully retrieve the value of all items that were selected at the time of the Change event.
>
> Stefan
> Adobe Systems
Sorry, I misunderstood the problem. I think the real issue here is that
multiselect list boxes are not fully supported. Be careful when using
these. If you try to export xml data from the form, you will get mixed
results. Sometimes it exports all of the values, sometimes it exports
one of the values, and sometimes it exports some of the values...none of
which seem to match what was actually selected. At least this is what I
experienced in limited testing. Proceed with caution!!!
Justin Klei
Cardinal Solutions Group
www.cardinalsolutions.com

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I am using Acrobat 8 version 8.1.2, and InDesign version 5.0.2.
I am noticing a very specific problem when exporting some files to PDF from InDesign.
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Regards
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Hi,
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