textFont : Set not possible, invalid or unkown.

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March 11, 2022
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According to the docs I can use textFont to set a font for a field . when I try that I get an error:

InvalidSetError: Set not possible, invalid or unknown.
Field.textFont:11:Menu Set Fields:Exec

How can I successfully set a font for a field?

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Correct answer try67

Display names, internal names? what do you mean?

Display names: The name of the fonts you see in the fonts selection list of a text field.

For example, "Myriad Pro Bold".

Internal names: The names used behind-the-scenes in a PDF file to represent a font. These values are the ones returned by the textFont property, and the only ones that will work when applied to it.

For example, "MyriadPro-Bold".

try67

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In order to find out the correct name for the font you want to use the best (and maybe only) way is to apply it to a field and then print out that field's textFont property to the JS Console. Then copy that text into your script.

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kingma-sbwAuthor

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@Bernd Alheit Thanks, I can try that.

@try67 : Font names do have space or am I wrong here?

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kingma-sbwAuthor

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I can confirm that this function to set all the fonts for text fields works:

function set_all_fields()
{
    console.show();

	for(var n=0; n<this.numFields; n++) {
		var fieldName = this.getNthFieldName(n);
		var field = this.getField(fieldName);
		console.println(fieldName);
		switch(field.type) {
			case 'text' :
				field.textFont = 'SourceSansPro';
				field.textSize = 9;
				break;
			case 'checkbox':
				field.style = style.ch;
				break;
			default: console.println(field.type);
				break;
		}
	}
}

and set the font family to "Source Sans Pro" (not "SourceSansPro")