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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Apr 16, 2019 12:04PM

Yes, I found obscure references to using the Appearance tab and selecting a
border colour, but trial and error in unchecking everything...and 3 hours of
online searching and troubleshooting!

While I'm talking PDF, I got an e-mail from Foxit today and they want to
talk to me about how they can improve their product! Am going to set up a
time. I did get my money back and will try the software next year to give
them time to work out the control issues.

Cheers, Karen

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Wow.
That's so obscure and unintuitive.
Better user interface is needed in our Acrobat programs.
Thanks Karen!
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Found "the trick."

You have to not only identify the border as a solid line in the Appearance
tab but deselect all of the default options in the Options tab. Then the
check box and character limit for a Comb will be available and you can
create it.

Cheers, Karen

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Nope, PowerPDF has the Comb settings unavailable too.

There must be a "trick" to setting this? I've never had to do this before so
am baffled as to why this setting is not available.

Cheers, Karen

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Subject: [WebAIM] PDF Forms - Can't get the Comb setting to work

Hi Everyone:



I've looked online and can't find any useful information on why the ability
to create a text form control as a comb with a character limit is not
available in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. The one offering was to put a border
around the text form control and then identify the form control as a comb in
the Options tab.but even doing that, the comb settings in the Options tab
for a text form control is not available.



I've tried checking and unchecking things but I just can't identify the text
form control as a Comb with a limit of characters.



Am using the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC with all updates
installed.



Am now going to check PowerPDF in case I can set this there, but it is
strange that I can't do this in Acrobat.



Any ideas? Help?



Cheers, Karen

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