How to alter text alignment for interactive text fields?

[georgeb1251557]

I have been trying to make an interactive form in inDesign with reasonable success, but there is one feature that I need to make the whole thing work; the capability to centre the text in the text field box that I have drawn. The Buttons and Forms tab gives me the option to change text size, but that seems to be the only option available in terms of text formatting.

Knowing how to do other features such as making inputted text bold or underlined would also be helpful.

I have looked around on tutorials but none seem to address my specific issue as far as I'm aware. If anyone is able to help it would be greatly appreciated.

[Joel Cherney]

Would make much more sense to have that basic option in InDesign.

You're not wrong

If you know any Javascript, it's probably the fastest way to handle large amounts of form field adjustments. For instance, something like this loops through all of the form fields in the PDF and sets alignment to center on all text fields:

for (var i = 0; i < numFields; i++) { 
   var fName = getNthFieldName(i); 
   var f = getField(fName); 
   if (f.type === "text") { 
      f.alignment ="center"; 
   } 
}

 Yes, I agree that improved form field handling tools would be useful in InDesign, but there are so many other ways in which form field handling in InDesign is woefully incomplete that it might appear somewhere in the twenties of my personal "ranked list of feature requests for form fields in InDesign that I haven't yet bothered to file."

[Jeff30386443qr3a]

It does seem to center itself a little better by default if you choose Multiline, but that's all the control I was ever able to exert over this. TBH I switched to Affinity a while back but that has its own limitations.

[Maria342111806s0q]

Awesome, thank sooooo much for this!

[Caroline34873183crow]

Thank you!!! I've been trying to work this out for hours. Not exactly intuitive but once you know you know.

[tawnie5FEC]

I actually just struggled with this. When you are in InDesign, select the text box, and then you will be able to click the font alignment tools. Just click whichever alignment you want, and once you export and open in Adobe it works perfectly! I just did it a few minutes ago!

[michaelm87209950]

tawnie5FEC - This does not work