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Ronald Epling
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May 11, 2016
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Can you create a text field with existing text?

  • May 11, 2016
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I'm trying to create a PDF template as a form, but would like text already entered into the text field, so the person updating the form will know how it should look.  Then they can just click and update the existing text.  Is this possible?

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Ronald EplingAuthor
Participant
May 11, 2016

I've found a really helpful tool in FormMagic... saves a ton of post-work in Acrobat.  Thanks for your info!

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Ronald EplingAuthor
Participant
May 11, 2016

Also.. one other issue I'm having is when exporting out of InDesign as an Interactive PDF, the fonts and alignments are disregarded and converting back to Times New Roman and left aligned.

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George_Johnson
Inspiring
May 11, 2016

You can't set the field text in InDesign, if that's what you're asking. And InDesign doesn't allow you to set all of the properties that you can in Acrobat, so you usually need to do a good amount of work in Acrobat, but it can be automated fairly easily using JavaScript. Prepopulating the fields can also be done in Acrobat by simply importing a data file.

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