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This can be done.
There are a few things to consider beforehand, however.
First, will the persons filling out that form have a full version of Acrobat or Approval?
Second, if not, how many persons will have to fill out this form? Are they within your organization, or are they "out there"?
Third, if not, will they have at least Reader?
In the first case, you could use the Template functionality of Acrobat, which allows you to mark a page as a Template and to "spawn" new pages from this template. You can do this programmatically, and you have quite a bit of control over everything. The only drawback of this is that Reader is not allowed to handle Templates, and therefore, the end users would need something "better", such as a full Acrobat version or Approval.
If the volume of the form is big enough that it justifies it, there is one way to make Reader 5.1 and newer use Templates, and that would be to add Extended Rights to the document. For that you would need Adobe Document Server for Reader Extensions. For further descriptions look around for some of my posts in the past, and/or contact your Adobe _Enterprise_ sales person. Licencing models can be negociated.
And, if that fails, there is a possibility I have built into my PDF Shopping Cart toolkit, which uses "virtual" pages, and does work within Reader. The description of this procedure would extend the scope of this mailing list, therefore, feel free to contact me in private for further information and pricing.
Hope, this can help.
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I have a question that I am hoping will have a better answer than I think. I have a form which was converted from Microsoft Word to Adobe 6.0. The form is a Statement of Account so of course it is set up in a table (4 cloumns: date, description, credit and charge). I have been asked if there is a way for the form to move onto a second page if necessary. I am thinking that I will not be able to do this because when the form was converted from Word the table became static. Please let me know if there is any trick I can use to allow this form to become two pages if necessary.
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