Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Formatting Text Fields in Adobe PDF Forms



If you are using Adobe Professional to create fields that students can type into, you have probably been frustrated by the formatting. Specifically, you may not like it that as students' writing fills the provided width of the text field, the font size begins to get really small. You can change this by:
1) Open the PDF in Adobe Pro (*not* Adobe Reader)



2) Select "Forms" and "Add or Edit Fields"


3) RIGHT click on a Text box you have added and select "Properties"

4) Choose "Options" tab
5) Uncheck "Scroll Long Text" and check "Multi-line" - this stops the font from decreasing and allows the writing to fill the size of the box you create.
6) You can now re-size the Text box by clicking and draging the corners of the Text box to the width and height that you want to accommodate the potential answer.

5 comments:

  1. Jeannie Parker at Quince Orchard HS shared the idea of making a text box the size of the entire page. This allows the students to type anywhere in the document using the enter key to move down the page. You need to change the formatting as described above.
    * Also, this only works if the student does not need to highlight and have text read aloud (e.g. using NaturalReader), as the text box covers the actual document text to select and have read aloud. *

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