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I work for a power utility and we recently digitized our permit process for cable and telephone companies to attach to us. The permit is per pole so when they send us a new job it may have anywhere from 1-150 poles which are each separate permits. Is it possible to add a combo box field on the first page where they can select how many poles they will have and the whole document opens to 1 to however many permits they need. Currently what we have is the same permit on 50 pages but if they need less they don't fill in all the pages and if they have more they must fill out the document multiple times.
If this isn't possible does anyone have any other suggestions for this? Each permit looks the same but needs to be done for each pole so ideally we would want a selection on the first page that they can enter they need 30 permits and it adds 29 more pages of the same first page to work with.
Any suggestions would be helpful, we need a new method! By the way, the companies filling in the permits will only have the free license for adobe reader, not standard or pro.

Well seeing as the Reader 11 should be a free update then I can just ask our cable or telephone companies to use the current version so that shouldn't be a problem.
I've honestly just started using Adobe Standard, version 9, within the past two days so I am very new to all of this. I was able to build the whole pdf with the different inputs but I've never done a template before. If you know of a forum or anything that will help I can use that if you don't want to try to explain it all to me. Also, the permit has nothing of importance on it so if it helps for me to share it somehow I can do that.
Seems like I'm on the right track!
Thank you!

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