How to Limit Word Count in InDesign Interactive Text Fields?

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November 19, 2018
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I am making an interactive document with Indesign, and I wanted to know if you could limit the words in the text field? – As for now the user can just keep writing in the textfield, which is not that slick.

Anyone who have a hack for this issue?

Derek Cross

Community Expert

After you export the PDF form from InDesign you can open it in Acrobat Pro and fine tune the fields in terms of choice of font, alignment, colour, number of characters and more.

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alexzack_azAuthor

New Participant

But the file is not going to be exported as a pdf per se – but it will be exported in another program which will use the Indesign file spec given as it is. So is there anyway to determine the amount of characters from within Indesign?

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joep94083698

Participating Frequently

Yes, in5 > Interactive Widgets > Form Element Data. That panel lets you set a maximum number of characters.

See the video below.

This "Answer" is advertising a 3rd party indesign add-on (in5) which you have to pay to license from between $30 - $80 per month. Therefore this is not a valid answer to their question.

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