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? Best Way to Get Everything into XForms ?

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I find working with XForms has many advantages.

However, many (most?) downloads don't come with XForms. I have a crude way of converting everything to XForms: I split all the pages in any way (half and half is good enough) and the merge them back together as they originally appeared. Now, I have an XForm wherever there was a page (half and half produces a page with two XForms unsurprisingly) without any apparent negative consequences and I can manipulate them as desired.

But is there a better way?
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Re: ? Best Way to Get Everything into XForms ?

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Hello, PHK

Unfortunately there is no other way to perform such a task. I spoke with the Dev team and they confirmed that it is not something planned at this time, so you will need to continue with your workaround for the foreseeable future.

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Re: ? Best Way to Get Everything into XForms ?

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Well, at least there is a way...thank you, Daniel.
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:)
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Re: ? Best Way to Get Everything into XForms ?

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I may have found a decent workaround for a single page: simply use the Merge Pages tool on the single page (counterintuitive) and everything on that page will now be in a single XForm.
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Re: ? Best Way to Get Everything into XForms ?

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Hello PHK,

Glad to hear you found that out!
Thanks for sharing with everyone!

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Re: ? Best Way to Get Everything into XForms ?

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...and of course for a multi-page document you don't need merged just select 1x1 pages, horizontal vs. vertical doesn't matter.
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:)