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Anonymous

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Font of user-entered text in a form is inconsistent

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
August 31, 2016
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Is there a way to make the font of user-entered text consistent? Specifically, the text a user enters into a text box.

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Anonymous

My thanks to all for the assistance.

Attached is a screenshot. I have highlighted in three separate colours the differing font sizes. When George mentioned that it is best to create the text box rather than let Adobe convert areas to text, I tried copying the ABC College of Technology text box and placed it elsewhere. The font remains consistent. I'll continue doing this to resolve the issue on this form. Should there be any other suggestions on how better to achieve consistent font for user-entered text, please pass that along as well.

try67

Community Expert

Did you try what I suggested above?

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Anonymous

Thanks for touching base.

I did go through the steps you suggested although the font size issue did not resolve itself. George mentioned that the reason this might be the case is that the Adobe form was a conversion from MSWord. I assume this is because Adobe takes over during the conversion and makes its best guess.

For further details on the steps I took, please see my findings in my comments above at 31-Aug-2016 1:50 PM and 31-Aug-2016 2:01 PM

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Anonymous

Humm...not quite what I am looking for. Thanks for the idea though...

The text of the form is the correct font size. It is the user-entered text (once saved and opened by someone else to complete fields such as name, address and phone number) that is inconsistent in size.

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George_Johnson

Inspiring

Can you post a screen shot that demonstrates what you're seeing?

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Anonymous

Thanks for the tidbit! I will try that and let you know how it works

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Anonymous

I tried that through Edit - Preferences - Content Editing - Font Options and set both Fallback and Default Font to Arial 10. No change. Should I have made the change elsewhere?

try67

Community Expert

That's not how you edit form fields. To do that you need to go to Form Edit mode, and then select the fields you want to edit, right-click one of them and select Properties.

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Anonymous

The form I have created was converted to pdf from a Word Document. The form has numerous text boxes in varying sizes. When the end user completes the form, the text varies in size depending on what size the text box is and where it is placed within the form. There is consistency within "sections". I understand with pdf fillable forms that the text will become smaller if there is too much text for the size of the text box yet I would like to start out with a consistent sized font. As a result of the user-entered text font changes size so much (five different font sizes of user-entered text) the form looks unprofessional when printed.

Hopefully, this information helps explain the issue I am having.

try67

Community Expert

It sounds like the font size in your fields is set to Auto. Change it to a fixed value and they should all look the same.

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George_Johnson

Inspiring

What do you mean by inconsistent, exactly? If a field allows for rich text formatting, the user is not limited to a particular font, font size, color, alignment, etc.

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