Form Field - Font Size 'Auto' - Doesn't increase to fill space, only decreases to fit

[Mark PA]

Trying to use a form to run a mail merge which generates multiple PDF reports from data in an excel file.

Mostly working fine, but on one page I want the recipients name to be large and prominent.

So I've inserted a field, expanded it to a large size, and set the font size to 'Auto'. This works great with other fields when I have lots of text that needs to be decreased in size to fit into the field. But doesn't work the other way, when I only have a couple of words that I want to increase in size to fill the space of the field that I have inserted.

Can anyone help me out here? Is there something I have missed?

[Amal.]

Hi Mark,

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. I have tried to reproduce the issue on my end and its working fine. (The font in the text field with font size Auto is increasing with limited words and vice-versa)

Would you mind sharing the version of the Adobe Acrobat DC you are using? To check the version go to Help > About Acrobat and make sure you have the latest version 20.13.20066. Go to Help > Check for updates and reboot the computer once and check.

You may also try to repair the installation from the help menu (Windows Only) and see if that works.

If it still does't work, please try to reset the preferences to default as described in the help page: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/how-to-reset-acrobat-preference-settings-to-default/td-p/4792... and see if that helps.

If it still doesn't work, please try to create a new test user profile in Windows or enable the root account in Mac and try using the application there and check.

Regards

Amal

[Mark PA · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your help. Something was wrong with that partilcular field. I recreated the form and the problem solved itself. 

Appreciate your response.

[Amal.]

Hi there,

We are glad to hear that. Feel free to contact us for any assistance required in the future.

Regards

Amal

[try67]

There is an upper limit to the font size the Auto setting allows for. For example, in this screenshot there's clearly room for the text to be larger, but it's not:

Also, it will never fill the field entirely, as there will always be margins above and below the text.

[JR Boulay]

Champ = Field

hauteur = height

corps = text size

Do you see the trick?