How to set tabbing order in Acrobat X Pro

I cannot find any instructions for manually setting tabbing order in Acrobat X Pro. It does not work the same as earlier versions of Acrobat Pro. Any idea as to where I can go for instructions for X Pro?

Thank you for the quick response! I found instructions for the Pro 9 version, so followed that and it worked like a charm.
Thanks again for your help.
RJ

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About setting tab order in Acrobat Pro X

I'm really disappointed in the way you changed how I set tab order in Acrobat Pro X. I work with a lot of forms with multiple fields. Some of these forms have up to 100 different fields on one page that need to be in the order I set. In previous versions, I could set this order simply by clicking on the fields in the correct order I want. But with X, I have to drag each field one by one into the correct order. When you have a bunch of fields to set, this is tedious. And, when I click on a field to edit content, more times than not, it changes the tab order, and I'm back to finding it in the panel and dragging it back to it's correct place. This is time consuming. Not to mention when there are more fields than the monitor's height, the fields are scrolled in the panel.
So, please do something to give me the option to set tab order like in previous versions, and once they are set, leave them where they are. Or am I doing something wrong?

You're not doing anything wrong, it really sucks. But things are improved significantly with Acrobat 11. First, there's a preference setting that prevents the automatic reordering that can happen when fields are moved/edited. Second, you are able to select and move multiple fields at a time in the fields panel, which can speed things up considerably. It's still not as efficient as the old method, but at least it has finally been addressed. I think this feature alone is worth the upgrade price for the amount of time it will save and the beneficial effects on stress, blood pressure, and hair loss.

Setting tab order in Acrobat 9

This is the first time I'm trying to set the tab order in a PDF created in Acrobat 9. I am used to the previous versions where all you had to do was click through the fields to set their order, Adobe seems to have changed it to be much more cumbersome requiring you to drag the fields in the field list. I can see where this might be useful in certain cases, but I would like to still be able to edit the tab order the older way. For larger more complicated documents, it's just much easier to do it this way for me. Is this impossible in newer versions, or am I missing something?
I tried opening the file in Acrobat 8 on another machine, and the 'Edit Tab Order' command is greyed out for this file, so I'm guessing that editing in 9 must change the file to make it incompatible to edit this way.
If anyone has any insight on a way to easily edit the tab order in version 9, or to allow the file to be edited in version 8, I would be grateful for any assistance.

Yes, I do have the Select Object tool active. (The 'Edit Fields' menu option doesn't show up unless that tool is active)
I have tried to edit the PDF on my Mac and PC, and in both cases, all of the menu options under the 'Edit Fields' menu, including the option to set the tab order, are greyed out.
I did a quick test and copied the fields into a new document, and the menu was available, so I may be able to get this working by opening a new copy of the original PDF and pasting the fields I have set up into that document. I hope this works, because my estimated time that I will spend rearranging the fields is about 25-30 seconds per field which would equate to about 1-1.5 hours of work just to set the Tab Order!! That's compared to about 2-3 minutes or so (at max 5 minutes). With all of the checkboxes, text fields and combo boxes, there are roughly 250 or so fields on this form.
Thanks. If you have any other suggestions, let me know.

How to set Tab ordering in JPanel

hi all
i add a JPanel on a JFrame and Various swing Controls on that JPanel. now i want to change tab ordering of components present in my JPanel.
please guide me how can i do this. i have tried setFocusTraversalPolicy but it does not work with JPanel.

You should read the article from Sun:
"How to Use the Focus Subsystem"
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/focus.html
Moshe

Having trouble manually setting tab order in Acrobat Pro 9x

I can change the order of all fields except for a group of radio buttons. Even when I drag the field name in the panel to the correct location in the list, it still maintains its original position in the order of fields and it's driving me nuts!! Is this specific to radio buttons or a generic bug in this version of Acrobat? Much appreciation in advance.

You're not doing anything wrong, it really sucks. But things are improved significantly with Acrobat 11. First, there's a preference setting that prevents the automatic reordering that can happen when fields are moved/edited. Second, you are able to select and move multiple fields at a time in the fields panel, which can speed things up considerably. It's still not as efficient as the old method, but at least it has finally been addressed. I think this feature alone is worth the upgrade price for the amount of time it will save and the beneficial effects on stress, blood pressure, and hair loss.

Set tab order by clicking fields, how?

Ive done it before but cant figure out how I got to it. The presets for "by row", "by column", etc... and arranging using the view on the left panel are not working easily for me and it would just be so much quicker and easier if I could just click the fields in the order I want the tabbing to go. How do you get to that function?

Thanks for the caution. If folks do try this dual install and they get bad results or "buggy" performance, they should uninstall V5. Optionally, keep an old machine running V5 just to set tab order. Recently, we set row/column mixed tab order on a form with 600 fields. Ten minutes vs hours of tedious work locating and dragging fields up and down the column.
We did have a conflict last month when we were intalling PitStop on a V5/V9 machine. PitStop complained about V5 and wouldn't install. We removed V5, installed PitStop and reinstalled V5 and it all works like a charm.
Down in the trade-shop trenches we have to produce forms efficiently to bid competitively. We experiment with many techniques to save time. Naturally, we cannot expect to get Acrobat support with our violating, multi-version setup, but this is a small sacrifice because our experience with "support" is that they really aren't fluent in deep product usage.

Is Set Tab Order Broken in Acrobat 8.x Pro?

I can't seem to get it to work. Even when the automatic tab order setting is done and it is numbered correctly, when I switch to Preview and also save/close/re-open in Preview, the tab order is what it was before. When I go to Edit Layout, the tab ordering numbering shows correctly for all fields, but back in Preview, it goes out of whack in the same way.

Yes, I had already tried saving and even closing and re-opening. The Set Tab Order interface does not even operate in a fashion the user would expect. When replying to the alert question about automatic vs. manual setting of the interface, then randomly clicking fields, at one point the order stops changing once a field is selected. A text field becomes the LAST numerical field when it is selected, rather than starting at one and proceeding in ordinal fashion.
I am convinced that this feature is bug-ridden based on my attempts to work with it and given the numerous posts "commenting" on this very feature.

Unable to set tabbing order for a typedef

Attached is a .CTL file that is for a typedef in my project. I'd like to set the tabbing order. I'm using the "Array to Cluster" VI (is it a VI?) to fill it with data, however because the controls are not in the correct order, the data is no being put in the right place. When I edit my CTL, Edit|Set Tabbing Order is greyed out. Why is this and how do I fix it?
See my attached file.
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
Accumulated Metrics.ctl ‏19 KB

Never mind - I figured it out. Right click on the cluster containing my controls and select "Reorder controls in cluster..."

How to change page order in Acrobat Porfolio?

How to change page order in Acrobat Porfolio? In older versions it use to be much easier to drag and drop the page order. I don't see any menu options on arranging the pag order. Any ideas? Thanks.
I would post a screenshot but they have been disabled on these forums.

You should ask in the Reader forum. But my guess is that Reader there is nothing you can do. Acrobat allows you to move pages around, but not Reader.

How to set focus order of multiple Component in a Frame

I have created a Frame with contain some Label, Textfield, Choice and Buttons
How do set focus order on these Components

write an implementation of
import java.awt.*;
public class PanelFocusTraversalPolicy extends FocusTraversalPolicy
    public Component getComponentAfter(Container container, Component component)
        if(component.equals(cmp1))
            return cmp2;
        if(component.equals(cmp2))
            return cmp3;
        return cmp1;
    public Component getComponentBefore(Container container, Component component)
        //implentation of method
    public Component getDefaultComponent(Container container)
      return cmp1;
    public Component getLastComponent(Container container)
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    public Component getFirstComponent(Container container)
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How notification system work together with Acrobat X Pro?

Hi everyone,
I use Adobe Acrobat 10 Pro to implement Distributed PDF Form in my organization. I have some problem about this.
When client fill information in application form on our distribution server,Do you have solution that Acrobat 10 Pro can send a notification to specific authorized
prerson for his/her Digital Signature?
example : Mr.A filled some information about Purchase Order. System require his supervisor's digital signature so, Acrobat send notification to his supervisor automatically.
I have some idea about Active Directory work together with Acrobat but, I don't know how to use both of it together.
Any advice will help me so much.
Best Regards,
Charles
PS. sorry about my poor english

Thank you so much about your suggestion.
Do you know how i can integrate Acrobat X Pro with Active Directory?
I look forwarding to hear from you.Thank you.
Chompunoot
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:29:41 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How notification system work together with Acrobat X Pro?
Hi Charles,
You want to modify the signature field properties and set a script to execute when the field is signed.
Here's how to get started in Acrobat X:
Open the file that will eventually be uploaded to the server
Click Tools on the top right to open the Tools panel
Expand Forms (click on Forms so you can see the buttons underneath)
Click the Edit button
Right mouse click on the first signature field and then click Properties from the pop-up menu
Select the Signed tab on the Digital Signature Properties dialog
Select the This script executes when the field is signed radio button
Click the Edit button
Add the following in the JavaScript Editor dialog:
          var cMyMsg = "Please log on the server and sign the document";
          app.mailMsg ({
              bUI: true,
              cTo: "mailto:[email protected]",
              cSubject: "A document requires your attention",
              cMsg: cMyMsg
Click the OK button on the JavaScript Editor dialog
Click the Close button on the Digital Signature Properties dialog
Click the Close Form Editing button in the Forms panel under Tools
Save the PDF file
It's going to look something like this:
http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/70913/SignScript.jpg
Give that a try and from and see what you think. You can set the strings as necessary and repeat for each signature field (except for the last one )
Steve
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