Text alignment within an acrobat text form field

[rhhicks3]

Greetings all,

Is it possible to specify precise vertical and horizontal alignment of text in an acrobat text form field?  Having searched this forum and the acrobat user interface, I haven't seen what I'm trying to find.  It appears as though when acrobat automatically creates a form from a Word source document, it chooses computed or default dimensions for the text form fields.  However, when a user types text into that field, in my particular instance, it looks like the text is middle-aligned vertically in the field and it appears to be about 3 feet above the line beneath the text field, not attractive.  I have found no way to adjust the height of the text downward by a specified value so it sits at a reasonable height above the underline from my source document.

Do I have to modify the text field vertical dimension so that the text won't sit so high, or is there an alignment feature that allows me to specify the text height above the form field base?

Thank you in advance for any remedial wisdom!

[try67 · Accepted solution]

You can only set horizontal alignment, to either Left, Right or Center. Vertical alignment is set by the field's Multiline property. If not set, it will be the equivalent to Center. If it is set, it will be equivalent to Top.

Both options can be found under the field's Properties, in the Options tab:

Both options can also be set using a script, if you want to edit multiple fields at once.

[JR Boulay]

Move the fields down, give them a white background (to hide the layout baseline) and an underline-type stroke.
You can also reduce their height.