Font of user-entered text in a form is inconsistent

[Guest]

Is there a way to make the font of user-entered text consistent? Specifically, the text a user enters into a text box.

[George_Johnson]

What do you mean by inconsistent, exactly? If a field allows for rich text formatting, the user is not limited to a particular font, font size, color, alignment, etc.

[Guest]

The form I have created was converted to pdf from a Word Document.  The form has numerous text boxes in varying sizes.  When the end user completes the form, the text varies in size depending on what size the text box is and where it is placed within the form.  There is consistency within "sections".  I understand with pdf fillable forms that the text will become smaller if there is too much text for the size of the text box yet I would like to start out with a consistent sized font.  As a result of the user-entered text font changes size so much (five different font sizes of user-entered text) the form looks unprofessional when printed.

Hopefully, this information helps explain the issue I am having.

[try67]

It sounds like the font size in your fields is set to Auto. Change it to a fixed value and they should all look the same.

[George_Johnson]

When you have Acrobat automatically create form fields where it thinks they belong, you don't have any control over any of the field properties, including what font and font size is used. You almost always have to edit the fields to suit your needs, even changing some fields to another type, for example a text field to a dropdown, or radio buttons to check boxes. I rarely find it to be a useful feature and create the fields manually or by using custom scripts.

[Guest]

I tried that through Edit - Preferences - Content Editing - Font Options and set both Fallback and Default Font to Arial 10.  No change.  Should I have made the change elsewhere?

[try67]

That's not how you edit form fields. To do that you need to go to Form Edit mode, and then select the fields you want to edit, right-click one of them and select Properties.

[Guest]

Thanks for the tidbit!  I will try that and let you know how it works

[Guest]

Humm...not quite what I am looking for.  Thanks for the idea though...

The text of the form is the correct font size.  It is the user-entered text (once saved and opened by someone else to complete fields such as name, address and phone number) that is inconsistent in size.

[George_Johnson]

Can you post a screen shot that demonstrates what you're seeing?

[Guest]

My thanks to all for the assistance.

Attached is a screenshot.  I have highlighted in three separate colours the differing font sizes.  When George mentioned that it is best to create the text box rather than let Adobe convert areas to text, I tried copying the ABC College of Technology text box and placed it elsewhere.  The font remains consistent.  I'll continue doing this to resolve the issue on this form.  Should there be any other suggestions on how better to achieve consistent font for user-entered text, please pass that along as well.

[try67]

Did you try what I suggested above?

[Guest]

Thanks for touching base.

I did go through the steps you suggested although the font size issue did not resolve itself.  George mentioned that the reason this might be the case is that the Adobe form was a conversion from MSWord.  I assume this is because Adobe takes over during the conversion and makes its best guess.

For further details on the steps I took, please see my findings in my comments above at 31-Aug-2016 1:50 PM  and 31-Aug-2016 2:01 PM

[try67]

The two things are not contradictory. You can use my suggestion to solve the issue, regardless of what the cause of it was.

[Guest]

As mentioned, unfortunately, that did not seem to work for me.  Are you able to send me a screenshot on where to make such a change?  It would be great to fully understand this process so that the next time - it will be much easier.  It may be helpful to you to know that I was using the text boxes created by Adobe when converting the MSWord document rather than creating the text boxes from scratch.

[try67]

OK, here's an example. I have created a file with two text fields, with different font properties:

I switch to Form Edit mode and select both fields:

I right-click one of them and select Properties. I get this window:

As you can see, their current font size, font and text color are not the same, so I change them to be the same:

The result:

[Guest]

Oh my...so very simple.

I had been trying to do it from here:

Thank you so much for being persistent and helping me get to the bottom of the issue.

Many thanks!!!

[try67]

As I said before, that has nothing to do with form fields.