At 09:06 23/02/2016 -0800, Craig Russell wrote:
I'm trying to create a PDF form ...
But the form fields don't behave the way I want them to. I'd like
the user to click in a form field and type, with the text showing up
right there in place. Instead, the text typed in shows up either a
few points below or above the line, and then when tab out of the
field, the text jumps and doesn't line up. I'm sure that there is
something I'm missing about the proper use of for fields but I just
don't see it.
I'm no expert in this, but I think your only problem is that the form
fields are too small to contain the text properly. Put another way,
the text size - which is set by you in the document and not by the
user - is too large to fit into the fields as you currently have
them. Your main text is ten point, but you are making your users
insert twelve-point text into your fields.
o With Design Mode on, select the field.
o Right-click the field and select Control... | General.
o Scroll down to Font.
o Click the "..." button.
o Select the character format that you require - specifically size.
My experiments suggest that even if you set the field character
format to the same as your main text, the current fields will still
be too small to contain the text comfortably. I don't know whether
the precise behaviour will depend on the user's PDF reader, so I
don't know whether the fact that the document is made to work for you
guarantees that it will work for all users.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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