How do you duplicate a PDF fill in form page, WITHOUT linking the text (for MAC)??? That is, while still being able to type different things into the blanks on the duplicate pages?

Question

The Situation (again, I have a Mac):  I am filling out a 5 job application- it is PDF format, with questions, and fill in the blanks for your information- such as name, date, and employment history.  Page 3, is the page used for employment history.  But, there is only room for two jobs on page 3.  The instructions tell you, you can "have as many page three's" as you want.  In my case, I will be putting 8 jobs- at two jobs per page, that is a total of 4 page three's.   I already know how to duplicate a PDF page, simply by opening the thumbnail viewer on the side, holding down the "alt" key, and clicking and dragging the desired page to create a duplicate.  So what is the problem??? When you duplicate the page, the boxes into which you type, are linked.  So if on the original, you type "Job A", into the experience box, it forces the same answer on the duplicate page, making it impossible to describe different positions!!!!  Is there a way to work around that? Thank you!!!!!

Answer 1

You're probably using Acrobat if you can duplicate pages like that. This is the Adobe Reader forum...
To answer your question, though: The only way this can be done automatically, without having to manually rename each field, is to use a Template to spawn new pages. This is something the form's author should have done, but you can do it yourself as well, using some code.