Scrollbar is missing form Adobe Dropdown List.

Hi,
Scrollbar is missing form interactive Adobe Dropdown List. Same design is working in other system very well. What could be the reason?
Thanks.
Ali

Hi Rali,
I faced the same issue and posted two blogs on it. you may refer to the same.. I wont suggest it as handling too many records is not advisable in PDF forms.
Here comes the importance of Markus's blog -> <a href="/people/markus.meisl/blog/2006/12/22/a-pdf-form-or-not-a-pdf-form--that-is-the-often-the-question">The blog most miss .</a>
The basic question is - whats the need of a drop down with 4k entries. The users wont like to have a drop down of that sort. I would rather note the value down than to search for a single value, not to forget the size of the scroll bar. wat abt users prefering keys than a mouse pad??????.
On top of it, this would greatly reduce your form performance.
Hope this helps. i did the custom search help stuff, and it was preferred. Still the Form will need to refresh - which users wont prefer again.
Hope we have a better standard search help soon :(.
- anto.

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