Besides dragging the selection handles, how can I change the line weight of a line when editing a form? Is there a way to specify the weight instead of dragging?

[Daniel a Köenig]

I have added a horizontal line to a pdf form as an underline to some text fields that span the page. The traditional underline text function will not do what I need.

The weight of the line is too thick, and when I try dragging the selection handles, it becomes either thicker or too thin. Is there a way to specify numerically how thick the line should be, as there is in InDesign?

A secondary but equally important question is, can an object (text box, line, etc.) be moved by increments instead of just Up-Arrow, Down-Arrow, Shift-Up-Arrow, etc.? In the example of the line above (or the text boxes directly above it), a single up-arrow increment moves them too close together, and leaving them where they are is too far apart. I have tried moving them with the mouse instead of the keyboard, but even with "snap-to-grid" off, the objects seem to be locked into a grid spacing, anyway; i.e., there is no "in-between" place so I can get the spacing between the text boxes and the line how I want it.

In InDesign, you can hold Shift-Command (on a Mac) to move by one-tenth of a single up-arrow increment, and that's the functionality I need in Acrobat Pro DC. The only modifier I have found is the Shift key, which multiplies the increment (seemingly by a factor of 10), but I haven't found a key-combination that allows smaller increments of movement instead of larger.

Thank you very much for any help you can give!

[Daniel a Köenig]

Please see this post for what I have adopted as the 'answer':

When using the keyboard to move an object in Acrobat Pro DC, is there a way to change the increment ...

However, please see this feature request for what would TRULY be the answer, and PLEASE VOTE FOR IT if you agree!

Precise placement of objects in Prepare Form and Edit Form – Share your feedback on Acrobat DC

Thanks for taking 5 or 15 seconds to vote!

Ken

[Daniel a Köenig]

Hello again, all!

I am excited to inform you that we may be close to having an actual fix implemented in Acrobat!

If you haven't already, please vote for this idea at the following Feature Request page:

http://tinyurl.com/PrecisePlacementOfObjects.

The more votes, the more likely Adobe is to spend the time and money necessary on this.

Something I think a lot of users don't realize is that Acrobat is a *huge, complex* program, and making ANY change is a *mammoth* undertaking. It's not like you can just change a few lines of code and say "Voila!" When you make a change in even one line of code, you probably will have to make many changes in other lines of code so you don't "break" anything else in the program/application.

We, as users, must really make the case, through our votes and our comments—at this feature request page, in addition to all the other forum threads—for the need for these features, or they will NOT be implemented.

So please, cast your vote, and direct all interested parties to this page via this link:

http://tinyurl.com/PrecisePlacementOfObjects

Thanks so much!