Hi Brian, >> 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.
This really helped. I did not realize that double click or context click a form field opened yet more options for fields. I had been using the Properties sidebar menu which didn’t have all of the controls. When I changed the font size, field position and height, I was able to get the form to look just like I wanted it to. Thanks for all the suggestions. Craig > > > 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 > > Craig L Russell Architect craig.russ...@oracle.com P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
