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How do you set a field to accept more than 1 line? filling in a paragraph of text without having to TAB between each line?

New Here ,
Apr 23, 2016 Apr 23, 2016

How do you make multi line fields in a fillable form?

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Acrobat SDK and JavaScript , Windows
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Apr 23, 2016 Apr 23, 2016

Tick the "Multiline" box under the field's Properties, Options tab.

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LEGEND ,
Apr 23, 2016 Apr 23, 2016

If the underlying page has lines, there isn't a setting for multiline text fields that let you specify the leading to match the spacing of the lines. But you can set up the field so that the lines are only visible when the field is blank, since they are really only useful if the form is printed and filled-in by hand. Here's a link to a sample form that demonstrates this approach: http://acroscript.net/pdf/demos/multiLine_Demo1.pdf

Be sure to download it since it doesn't work as intended in Chrome, Firefox and other built-in PDF viewers.

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New Here ,
Aug 30, 2016 Aug 30, 2016
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Thanks George. it saved my day!

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