I had to hurry with it and apparently you had already posted but I didn't see it! Lisa_lee Thank you very much for the Ctrl+A trick! That will come in very handy! You may input in the subject "Attn: Lisa" so I could follow up with this.įor your current workaround,please choose to change the font size for those text fields one page by one page by doing the following:ġ:Please go to "Form"tab>"Text field" to select the text field tool,please press "Ctrl+A" on your keyboard to make all of the text fields in the existing page to be selected.Ģ:Right click on the selected Text field from those selected text fields,please choose the "Properties" option in the pop-up context menu to bring up the Text field Properties dialog box where you could change the Font size under the "Appearance" tab there. If it is not convenient to upload documents on forum,please help to send us the files by submitting a ticket from our ticket submission center below: " that you mentioned,please help to send us the following information for further analysis:ġ:The original file that to be converted into PDF file. Regarding this situation,I have submitted the suggestion "Support to preset the text formatting with form field recognition tool and "file>create>form>from a file" feature"" as a new feature request to our product management team's reference with suggestion ID#PHANTOM-5683,so that it may be considered in future versions.Īnd for the issue "the automatically created fields are too large, and when the text is entered, it doesn't line up well with the non-form field text. I am sorry that there is still not any way to preset font size for the "run form field recognition" tool and "create>form>from a file" feature yet. Mike B ,Thanks for reaching out to Foxit support team. It looks like it will require a huge amount of labor to end up with a document that has appropriately sized form fields with appropriately sized text.Ĭan you (or anyone else) enlighten me any? In my screenshot you will see that the first field (Applicant's Full Legal Name) has been adjusted for field size, field height, and font size. I don't want to recreate hundreds of form fields! So is there a way to set this behavior BEFORE either creating the new form from an existing document or using the Run Form Fields Recognition tool (which I suspect is the same thing)?Īlso, the automatically created fields are too large, and when the text is entered, it doesn't line up well with the non-form field text. See screenshot.ĭoes Phantom PDF Standard 10.1 have a means of setting a "global" type of font size for form fields? I read post #5 by vinod2210, and your reply in post #6, and understand that process, but I have a highly formatted, four page document that already has the form fields - courtesy of the process I mentioned in my first sentence here. A font size of 9 in Arial or Helvetica appears to go well with the other text on the document. The problem is that it created all those fields with the default setting of text size=auto, which produces user text (in the form fields) that is garishly too large. I imagine this is very similar to what would happen if I had opened the original PDF document and used the Run Form Fields Recognition tool. Lisa_lee : I have a PDF form that I created using the File>Create>Form>From File option that now contains at least a hundred automatically created forms fields. Please let us know if it is working in version 9.7 on your side. One more thing, you mentioned that "In the past, I was able to accomplish this by enabling Allow Rich Text Formatting in the field properties, but that doesn't seem to be working in PhantomPDF 9.7", if we set "Allow Rich Text Formatting", we're able to copy the text with formatting from Word (or any other software) to the Text Field in PDF document. The Fonts options under "Edit" menu is for changing the the fonts options for the text objects in the PDF documents, not for the fonts options in Form Fields. Suggestion ID#:PHANTOM-11124.įor now, I'm wondering if using Typewriter tool to fill out the form would fufill your needs, the users could simply go to Commment->Typewriter then input the text at desired format. I've forwarded your comments as suggestion so our Product team could consider to add a "Text Style" option when right-clicking on the filled text in the form field. ![]() ![]() Currently if we want to adjust font size in Form field, we'll have to open the Properties of the Text Field, then go to Appearance to change.
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