Whilst using Acrobat Pro 9, I've created a fillable form and used the "simplified code" to calculate some values. Then I applied some font formatting and set the field to display in the number format and display the currency marker.
Now my form displays the value twice and in both fonts! It does it on every form field, no matter if I've added code or not.
It also doesn't matter whether "Highlight Fields" is enabled.
I tried using different fonts: Courier Bold, Trebuchets and others and still get the same problem. You can see in my picture that there the value is repeated "behind the scenes" in a smaller, grayer font.
How can I fix this?
Well, after long last and trying to reproduce the error, I think it must have been a rendering issue in Adobe Acrobat. I can't seem to reproduce it again (it figures), not even in Adobe Reader.
Thanks to whoever took an interest! I leave this "solution" here in case anyone runs into the same issue.
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I am having the exact same issue described in this question: Multiline pdf text box
I have a PDF that has some dotted lines that I want to convert into a fillable multi-line field. I tried the solution in the linked question, but my setting is not staying when I try to fill in the field outside of Acrobat.
When I am preparing the form inside Acrobat, I set the line height to 30 and it is lining up fine:
But when I save this PDF and then try to fill in the field outside of Acrobat, the line height setting does not stay. It gets reset every time:
It's super frustrating and I have scoured the internet looking for an answer but I have nothing yet. If someone knows what to do to get the line height looking like the first screenshot, please save my sanity.
I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2021.001.20135 on macOS 10.14.6.
Thank you
You can't. Those settings don't "stick" when the field is cleared and there's no way to set them programmatically. It's best to simply remove the lines from the PDF.
As #joelgeraci stated, the settings don't stick.
However, if the form has to be manually fillable, removing the writing lines may not be the best idea. In this situation, it would be better to change the field's background color. When the field has no content, its background color is transparent, otherwise white. And that will cover the writing lines.
I was working with an SSRS report that uses multiple textboxes in a list control. I found that when I ran and exported my report to PDF (and printed/exported to .XPS), certain textboxes would just ever so slightly get clipped.
Note: when the report rendered in SSRS development env., every textbox looked fine and the text never got clipped. The issue just occurs when exporting, and on seemingly random textboxes (random to me).
I've tried adjusting the height and width properties of the textboxes, and the CanGrow property to true/false. Even making the text a different size (like 5 point) or even a different font made no difference. The amount of text that filled the field didn't matter. I made sure the margins on the page were sufficient. I also made sure there were no other report objects that were overlapping the offending textboxes. Neighboring textboxes that displayed fine were set to be perfectly aligned vertically with ones that had the text problems, and still no luck.
None of these options above worked. I have also seen a few questions on stackoverflow that are similar, but not exact.
How do I keep these textboxes from clipping the text when exporting to PDF?
Thank you.
Sample: textbox text is cut off very slightly on SSRS report exported to PDF for certain textboxes
I have solved my own issue after some tinkering, though perhaps its not the best solution out there but it works.
I hard coded a space character at the end of each textbox field's expression that had the clipping issue,
For example:
=First(Fields!zipCode.Value) + " "
The only minor draw back is that it shifts the alignment of the text left by one space. Hope this helps.
I played around with all sorts of options with indent, padding and even added a gutter column. This seemed to work for a while but when the problem raised its head again, I just changed my font.
I think there might be something up with "Calibri" and "Calibri Light" but "Candara" seems fine.
Bit frustrating this only shows up on server generated pdfs as it makes the feedback loop so much longer.
I have a report with unbound textbox's in them. I populate these fields onLoad.
The problem, though, is that the if the text is too long, it will not wrap. I have set Can Grow = Yes but this does not seem to work.
Is it due to the fact I am adding the string to the field OnLoad? If so, how can I overcome this and force the text to wrap? I would want the width to remain constant, but the height to grow.
Figured this out... I right clicked the text box and selected Size > To Fit...
I had the box big enough to accommodate a second line. It wouldn't ever word wrap until I made the change above. Can Grow and Can Shrink did nothing, but I left them selected.
I open report from code in design mode, make changes to control source of the text fields, save and close report and lastly open it in preview mode. The only way I get what I want.
I know this is an old post but I've been running into the same issue and haven't been able to figure out a solution until now.
One of the fields in print preview was getting cut off for me and despite my best efforts to make sure all the formatting settings were correct (i.e. Can Grow/Shrink: On) for both the detail section and the specific field. Again, this issue only happened in print preview, which meant the reports that were getting printed had the text cut off.
Solution:
I ended up realizing that all of the other text fields were set to Plain Text and the text field giving me the issue was set to Rich Text. I changed it to Plain Text and voila! It displayed everything without any issues.
My guess is that if you're having this issue, make sure all of the fields are set to the same property (Rich Text/Plain Text). Not sure why Access has trouble with this but I hope this solution helps someone else out.
The simple solution to this huge problem is listed below.
Convert the property of the textbox from plain text to rich text.
Set the text align property to distribute.
Enable can shrink and can grow property of the text box. (Yes)
Done.
After a lot trial-and-error, the solution seems to be that the text box that you want to scroll must have enough height to show two vertical lines. A textbox that is only one line high will not scroll. (You must also have Can Grow set to 'Yes' for both the textbox and the detail section.)
You also have to have the CAN GROW of the section that the text box is in set to YES as well as the text box.
I've written a vb.net application to populate a Crystal report and output it to PDF. The problem is that every text box in which I have the letter "t" is being printed out to the PDF as "tt". eg, instead of "customer", it prints "custtomer". The design time layout is perfect. And this only happens with text boxes on the report; value fields that contain the t character print out correctly.
Any idea where I should be looking to solve this?
Out of interest, what font are you using? I've experienced exactly the same with the Calibri font. At the moment, the only way I've managed to get around it is to replace the font with something similar looking.
I had a same problem with Crystal Reports using Calibri font. It shows double t instead of single. However the issue resolved by changing the font.
Happy Coding :)
Seems this is some or other Font issue. In the printer setup for the report I selected the "No Printer" option, and the problem has gone away. Try figure that one out!
I'm trying to build a web app to programmatically fill out a PDF form. I am going to configure my form first in Adobe Acrobat, then write a Java app with iText to fill out all the form fields via user input from the web. The base form I need to fill out comes from the US government. They created form fields with extremely large kerning (character spacing) values I need to change. However, there appears to be no way to modify this value in the Acrobat UI.
Does anyone know how to manipulate character spacing on form fields in Acrobat 8.0 for Windows? I could try to use iText to programmatically manipulate the kerning of the original document, but this would be much more tedious.
I believe I figured this out: kerning is called "combing" in acrobat, and each of the form fields have been "combed". The strange thing is this option isn't checked when I view the properties of the form field, but "combing" is the behaviour I was attempting to replicate.