I have a 24 pages pdf registration document which the user is supposed to print out, manually fill, send by post or scan and send back by email. Once received, different pages are sent to different persons (secretary, accountant, educator, nurse, director, etc.).
I want to transform it into a pdf form with editable fields.
As the pages are shared out upon arrival, the user has to write his name and contact details several times. It would be better if the user could write his name once, and the content of that field would automatically appear in all the other "name" fields.
I found an answer to the opposite problem here : How to create a fillable PDF file with many identical-looking but distinct boxes
In this post, the problem was that the content of the fields was being duplicated. However, when I tried out the code, the content wasn't duplicated.
How do I do this, please?
I tried Ulrike Fischer's solution with the code :
\documentclass{paper} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} \begin{Form}[action=mailto:[email protected]?subject={The form},method=post] \TextField[name=lastname, width=5cm, height=0.6cm]{Type Last Name} \vskip .1in \TextField[width=5cm, height=0.6cm]{Type First Name} \vskip .1in \TextField[name=lastname, width=5cm, height=0.6cm]{Type Last Name} \vskip .1in \TextField[width=5cm, height=0.6cm]{Type First Name} \vskip .1in \end{Form} \end{document} It doesn't function. I open the pdf with Okular, click on "show forms", fill all fields with different values or leave the third field empty, save and reload. The pdf is saved with my input, if the third field was left empty is it still empty.
\TextField[name=lastname]{Type Last Name}.