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Unlike HTML, PDF is NOT WYSIWYG, it uses display "masking". Unless you actually change the "value" to have the $ and commas, you will not get displayed data "sent" to the server in the post only the actual value entered by your user.
Here's a question for Adobe - Why don't you give us WYSIWYG, you do for the rest of the form but not the fields. If you can change what displays surely you can change the value.
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Nicholas Jon
Chief Technical Officer
We Do That! Technologies
Huntington Beach, Ca
Phone 714.847.9050 PST
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I have a PDF with 2 text fields that are formated as category "Number", 2 decimal places, currency symbol "$", and seperator style set as "1,234.56". Then I have a 3rd text field that is a calculation of field 1 and field 2. If I put in "30" for field 1, the text shows as "$30.00", which is correct. When I submit the fields to my web server, the text comes across as just "30". Does anyone know why it doesnt come as "$30.00"? To see this happen, goto... http://www.blumberglegalforms.com/forms/viewdata.pdf
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