Last month I found an article by Stefan Cameron ( ) that described some script that allowed fields to grow horizontally to a max width. The check the box to allow text to vertically expand by itself is great, unless you want to print the form… the content that goes past the text box, is hidden and a plus sign denotes that something is there… Pretty much useless… Ideally these fields would even allow content to break across pages.Īlong the way I would frequently find encouraging check boxes or form properties like “expand vertically” or “dynamic” vs. The goal is to create a form that includes expandable text areas and when the they expand the rest of the content adjusts to accommodate them. I even contacted the instructor of the advanced Acrobat Pro/Live Cycle Designer course, to no avail. Google results are littered with the sad stories of others attempting this and being shut dow n. Note: 1-25-11 I updated this document today, adding another quote from the original article and a quote about saving as a dynamic PDF.Ĭreating a dynamically expanding pdf is something that I’ve tried several times over the last two years with no success until now.Note: 5-5-14 I updated this document today, adding another sample below.Note: 2-11-15 I updated this post today, noting an important difference between the 2 samples.