Changing Default Font & Size for Text Box Tool

Select a Text Box with the font/size that you want, then right-click and select "Make current properties default" from the contextual menu.

Thank you, that worked!

I'm using LiveCycle Designer in Acrobat Professional 8.0 and there does not appear that I can make the change you described. Additionally, I would like to change my global default font to Arial from Myriad Pro. Can you help?
I am using Windows XP Professional.

You cannot make changes to a PDF created in LiveCycle Designer.

Do you want to change the font in which you view your default font? If so, it can be changed under the Edit > Preferences > Commenting

I haven't been able to figure out how to change the default font in LiveCycle either, but you can select all of the fields and change their font properties at the same time.

It's possible to change the default font in LiveCycle Designer but it isn't necessarily straightforward. Check out the following post for further detail:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=12870

IHAVE TRIED ALL POSTED SOLUTIONS TO CHANGE THE FONT COLOR WITHIN A TEXT BOX AND NOTHING WILL WORK. I AM ABLE TO GET THE PROPERTIES BAR TO SHOW UP WITH ALL THE FONT OPTIONS, BUT THEY ARE ALL GREYED OUT AND UNAVAILABLE.

One thing to note about the properties toolbar in Acrobat 8 and 9 is that it's context sensitive. This was not the case in Acrobat 7. So, what you're able to select and/or change will depend on what you have selected. For example, if you have text selected [i]within[/i] a text box, you can change the font. However, if you have the text box itself selected this option won't be available.

Sorry to vent my frustration, but it doesn't matter what I have selected (be it the text within the text box or the text box itself) when I right click in the toolbar area the properties bar already has a check by it, and when I select the properties bar the check goes away but nothing disappears. When I right click again to select the properties bar nothing appears. I do have a text toolbar docked with font, size, color ect., but it appears this is for typewriter text only. Do you have any suggestions? I have been through the help files and tried everything I can find here and on the net to no avail. The program is simply not responding as it should according to these threads.

PS. if you can help I'd also like to vent about incorrect file structure errors, bad annotation errors, and the ineffectiveness of Adobe support systems in general, but those are seperate issues.

The typewriter toolbar is separate from the text box properties. See if you get this same behavior when following these steps:
1. Launch Acrobat
2. Enable the Properties toolbar (Ctrl + e). If you don't have a PDF open, you'll see "No Current Selection" in the toolbar.
3. Open a PDF, select Text Box tool (but don't actually create one). At this point, the Properties toolbar will change with fill colors, etc. and you'll see the option to "Keep tool selected".
4. Click cursor on page (cursor is within the Text Box), now the Properties toolbar changes to text changes such as fonts, color, etc.

Note that when you have "Keep tool selected", it's not referring to the Properties menu toolbar but the current tool that you have selected (i.e., Text box tool).

got it to work, THANK YOU. Got to tell you you were 100 times more helpful than the online tech support chat portal or the phone support people. I think the problem was that we had multiple instances of Acrobat open so the properties box was popping up on a different instance. Same thing for the typewriter toolbar, I was trying to change the options on the instance I had right in front of me and the toolbar was greyed out, but come to find out in another instance I had open all the options were available. You might want to let Adobe know that in multiple monitor set ups with multiple instances of acrobat running simultaneously, users are only able to utilize the typewriter and text box toolbars, select font options and set defaults in one instance (very frustrating). Maybe they could do something for that with the next update (fingers crossed).

Thanks for letting us know you got it working. I think the environment you're working in has a lot to do with it (i.e., multiple monitors). In your case two things changed for you in Acrobat first the text box tool is now context sensitive (version 8 and later) and second the multiple document interface (MDI) was dropped in Acrobat 9. This means that how the toolbars behave when you have multiple documents open has changed. With MDI, all the document windows resided under the same parent application -- so you saw more consistency with the toolbar behavior. For more information on the differences between MDI and SDI (Single Document Interface) check out the following [url=http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobat/2008/09/mdi_vs_sdi_in_acrobat.php]blog entry[/url].

I have already created a pdf document but now need to know how to change the font size in each field. I'm new to this and it's all very confusing to me. Please help!!!

Quick question, will adobe Acrobat Standard 8 also default font attributes? In other words I can get it to default font size and color but it looses the bold attribute? Can this be default as well?

Thank you, that worked!