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benhopkins
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August 12, 2019
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Acrobat DC Pro Form/template questions

  • August 12, 2019
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Hi,

I have a client who has asked me to create a sell sheet layout for her with blank areas where she can type in content. Is this possible? My experience with creating forms (or form fields, I guess I mean) is that the type gets smaller the more you type. What I want to do is use greeking to show her where the content goes so she can type it in at a fixed size with fixed formatting (font, tracking, leading, etc.), She originally asked for this to be done in Word, but I thought I'd ask and see if there's a simpler way to do it in a program we're more familiar with and that has better layout capability. My thought is that we'll create the layout in InDesign and then export it to Acrobat Pro DC (2015 release) to do what we need to do.

Please help save me from the hell that is creating layouts in Word. 

Thank you!  

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try67
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August 12, 2019

This is possible to some extent in a PDF file. You can set the font size of a text form field to a fixed value, so it doesn't change as you're typing into the field, but you can't set things like kerning, tracking, leading, etc. If you set the field as having Rich Text Contents the user will be able to set some of these things, but you set it up for them in advance.