Concatenate Fields with Bold Text

Question

Hello. I am using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro and am creating a form which concatenates several text fields into one. Some of the text needs to be in a bold font and the rest are not. I am using a Custom Calculation Script as follows:

// Get the field values, as strings

var s1 = getField("Paragraph1").valueAsString;

var s2 = getField("FName").valueAsString;

var s3 = getField("LName").valueAsString;

var s4 = getField("DateIssued").valueAsString;

var s5 = getField("Paragraph2").valueAsString;

// Combine values, separated by a space

event.value = s1 + " " + s2 + " " + s3 + " on " + s4 + ". " + s5;

I would like the text fields "FName" and "LName" to be bold, but the rest are not. I have tried searching this and can not find a resolution to my question. Can someone help please? Thank you.

try67 · Accepted Answer

You can do it by defining the field as having Rich Text Formatting (under Properties, Options), but then the script has to be amended to the following:

var s1 = getField("Paragraph1").valueAsString;
var s2 = getField("FName").valueAsString;
var s3 = getField("LName").valueAsString;
var s4 = getField("DateIssued").valueAsString;
var s5 = getField("Paragraph2").valueAsString;
var spans = [];
var span1 = {};
span1.text = s1 + " ";
spans.push(span1);
var span2 = {};
span2.text =  s2 + " " + s3;
span2.fontWeight = 700
spans.push(span2);
var span3 = {};
span3.text = " on " + s4 + ".  " + s5;
spans.push(span3);
event.richValue = spans;

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