I am making a PDF template with text field forms.
I have changed the font settings in Adobe/Preferences to Arial size 8.
Yet when I make a text field, the settings are helvetica 12. Changing this to Arial 8 adds 500KB in weight per merge field (total fields 130!) so the developers are complaining that the size is too large.
How can I change the default font settings for forms so that when I create a new text field it will automatically be with the setting Arial size 8?
Thanks in advance for any help!
changing default font settings for text field forms
2010-11-01 04:14:34
My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Macintosh
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Macintosh
2010-11-02 03:15:24
#2
Hello Dimitri,
Thanks for your answer, except this is what I have been doing and this process increases the field size too much as descbribed above! I am looking for a way to change ALL fields into the required font so that I don't have to do it per field.
Unfortunately, the font settings in Preferences seem not to apply to the form fields which is a real pity....
Any other ideas????
Thanks for your answer, except this is what I have been doing and this process increases the field size too much as descbribed above! I am looking for a way to change ALL fields into the required font so that I don't have to do it per field.
Unfortunately, the font settings in Preferences seem not to apply to the form fields which is a real pity....
Any other ideas????
2010-11-02 09:21:17
#3
Hi murielle,
I think you are misunderstanding. I am not talking about the Preferences you set from the main Edit ->Preferences menu in Acrobat. I am talking about Preferences you set on the field itself. With your mouse click once on a field you have created to select it. Then Right Click on the field and you will see a context menu- in there is an Option "Use Current Properties as Default." When you select that, whatever font, size, etc properties were in the field selected will now be the properties of any new field you create.Hope this helps,
Dimitri
I think you are misunderstanding. I am not talking about the Preferences you set from the main Edit ->Preferences menu in Acrobat. I am talking about Preferences you set on the field itself. With your mouse click once on a field you have created to select it. Then Right Click on the field and you will see a context menu- in there is an Option "Use Current Properties as Default." When you select that, whatever font, size, etc properties were in the field selected will now be the properties of any new field you create.Hope this helps,
Dimitri
2011-12-09 14:04:40
#4
Dimitri,
Unless I'm mistaken, that only works within an existing form. Is there a way to change Acrobat's defaults so that with any new document, it uses the font I previously told it to? It's kind of inconvenient to have to make the form first, then go in and change all the fields that the wizard found in its analysis, and would be nice if I could set the default to a font of my choosing and then each time I create a new form from a flat PDF, it uses my previous settings.
Unless I'm mistaken, that only works within an existing form. Is there a way to change Acrobat's defaults so that with any new document, it uses the font I previously told it to? It's kind of inconvenient to have to make the form first, then go in and change all the fields that the wizard found in its analysis, and would be nice if I could set the default to a font of my choosing and then each time I create a new form from a flat PDF, it uses my previous settings.
2011-12-10 00:14:14
#5
As far as I know, you can not modify the factory default.
However, there would be some options:
a) not bothering when you develop the form until you have all fields created and placed. Then select the fields and change the font for the selection at once. Because "non-standard" fonts are fully embedded whenever you change a field's font, you will end up with less document bloat.
b) create an application-level JavaScript which creates a text field with exactly your specifications. Set that script so that you will be able to call it as a menu item or as a toolbutton (as you state being on Acrobat 9, the user interface is not messed up beyond uselessness, and you can install that command into the Tools menu, for example. When you need such a field, you use the menu item, and the field gets placed at the default locaiton. You will then rename it and position it as you want.
Hope this can help.
Max Wyss.
However, there would be some options:
a) not bothering when you develop the form until you have all fields created and placed. Then select the fields and change the font for the selection at once. Because "non-standard" fonts are fully embedded whenever you change a field's font, you will end up with less document bloat.
b) create an application-level JavaScript which creates a text field with exactly your specifications. Set that script so that you will be able to call it as a menu item or as a toolbutton (as you state being on Acrobat 9, the user interface is not messed up beyond uselessness, and you can install that command into the Tools menu, for example. When you need such a field, you use the menu item, and the field gets placed at the default locaiton. You will then rename it and position it as you want.
Hope this can help.
Max Wyss.
Set up a text field how you want it then Right Click and choose "Use Current Properties as Defaults."
Hope this helps,
Dimitri
Dimitri Munkirs
WindJack Solutions
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