Hello, I would like to make the price crossed out in the text field (example below; Adobe Acrobat Pro). Unfortunately, the line hides under this field, which has a white fill. How can I get it to be over?
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yes, I did it in different file but unfortunately this is not something that satisfies me... And in the future I may need to cross out prices on various backgrounds.
Hi,
I don't have the right font here, but you could replace the price field by a text box annotation where you can modify the text font and color and the color of the background to be the same as the rectagle stamp.
and the result (with a wrong font):
and you can modify the price directly from the annotation window.
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Commenting annotations cannot reliably cover a form field, but they can cover another comment annotation.
In the example below, a text annotation is covered with a line annotation. Both are locked, so they can't be moved by the user. But the price can be changed from either the commenting panel, or as try67 mentioned, from a script that could be written specifically for this purpose. The script could be activated from a control panel page in the same pdf.
Hi,
Nesa's answer is correct, simple and seems to suit you.
As it is said, the annotation text box can be blocked, but it must be unblocked to be able to change the price or do it via a scrpt.
To finish with my version with annotations, and for those who are interested, I suggest to you a transparent button placed above the "QUICK STEP" sign.
A script is executed when you press this button and brings up a dialog box where you can only indicate a price, different from the one already indicated, then replaces the price displayed without having to unlock the annotation block.
Here is the script ran:
this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots=this.getAnnots();
if (annots!=null) {
for (var i=0; i<annots.length; i++) {
if (annots[i].type=="FreeText") {
var price=annots[i].contents;
while (price==annots[i].contents || isNaN(price.toString().replace(/[,]/,"."))) {
var price=app.response({
cQuestion: "What is the new price?",
cTitle: "PRICE",
cLabel: "New Price:",
cDefault: annots[i].contents
});
}
annots[i].delay=true;
var textAttributs=annots[i].richContents;
var spans=new Array();
spans[0]=new Object();
spans[0].alignment=textAttributs[0].alignment;
spans[0].fontFamily=textAttributs[0].fontFamily;
spans[0].fontStretch=textAttributs[0].fontStretch;
spans[0].fontStyle=textAttributs[0].fontStyle;
spans[0].fontWeight=textAttributs[0].fontWeight;
spans[0].strikethrough=textAttributs[0].strikethrough;
spans[0].subscript=textAttributs[0].subscript;
spans[0].text=price;
spans[0].textColor=textAttributs[0].textColor;
spans[0].textSize=textAttributs[0].textSize;
spans[0].underline=textAttributs[0].underline;
annots[i].richContents=spans;
annots[i].delay=false;
}
}
}
This script assumes that there is only one text box but can be adapted if there are several ones. All text attributes are re-placed but in your case you don't need all of them...
Why make it simple when you can make it complicated ! 🙂
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