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I'm dying.

This is the fifth straight day I've attempted to correctly build this PDF so that I can merge data into it from a webform. For no reason that I can determine, some/most fields just don't work.

They worked before, in the original pdf. They don't work in the new PDF I was sent. They don't work when I delete the fields and recreate them, sometimes. Sometimes that fixes them! I think it has to do with allowing the field to exist as a certain name, and then changing it later. It seems like the fields work if I create them and immediately give them the correct name.

So, I'm laboriously recreating the fields in small batches and verifying that they work after each step. Not only is this a slow process, but it's made even *slower* by the fact that Nitro PDF feeds the file pie the entire time I'm messing with it, so that after doing relatively small changes my 500k file balloons to 15M. Once it's on the server I can compress it back down with no harm done, but in the meantime that's time I'm wasting on file transfers.

This entire project is now 7 days overdue. It was given to me the afternoon before the deadline. Life is pain.

Edit: on the plus side, my tooth pain is finally going away. Back on Tuesday I got *so* mad at Internet Explorer that I severely bruised my gums due to teeth grinding (this is not the first time IE has caused me to inflict painful injuries on myself). I'm down to only 2 tylenol during the day (probably not necessary, but makes me comfy) and 2 at night to make sure I can sleep. I can *almost* chew solid foods on that side of my mouth. Woo!