How do you make multi-line text in a form continuous between lines without scaling the text?

[Alison Grube]

Help. How do you make multi-line text in a form continuous between lines without scaling the text?

I tried to set each form line for specific character amounts so that it ends at a certain point and does not change the text size to fit on the line but different key characters have different widths, so you don't get an even line length.

I tried to remove the scrolling of long text, but it didn't change anything.

I can create one big text box to fill out and have that scroll to additional lines, but then I get too much information from people and I would need to lighten the lines behind the text for multi line answers, or remove the lines...

Is there a better solution?

[George_Johnson · Accepted solution]

I usually just remove the lines and set the field to not "Scroll long text" so that all of the text entered is visible. Including the lines is really only useful if the form might be printed out and filled-in by hand, in which case you can use some scripting like this example does: http://acroscript.net/pdf/demos/multiLine_Demo1.pdf

It works as designed in Acrobat/Reader, but not in Chrome and other PDF viewers that have limited or no support for JavaScript. It uses custom Validate, On Focus, and On Blur scripts.

[Alison Grube]

Thank you. This is helpful. This validates that there are not many solutions to this problem that I haven't tried and my thinking was about right. I appreciate your help.