Adobe Community: Add a text/sentence inside a PDF

Currently Being Moderated

1. lrosenth,

Apr 16, 2012 1:04 PM in reply to jayshakir

Report

If you are doing this manually, you should post this to the Acrobat users area, since it's an application question.

If this is a programming/development question, then we would need more info about the environment you are using…

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

2. jayshakir,

Apr 16, 2012 8:08 PM in reply to lrosenth

Report

this is development question, my environment is my local system with window os and visual studio and c#

thing is in some cases the text box is inside a paragraph and that is fine, however when the text box is filled with a shorter word there is a gap and if there is a longer word the right bottom of the text box has a +.

let us assume that is not the issue, however when the text box needs to start in the middle of the para in the middle of a line and till the end, we cant start the text box in a zig sa manner to start fromt he middle of a line, but from the start of the next line, in a rectange form.

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

3. jayshakir,

Apr 16, 2012 8:10 PM in reply to lrosenth

Report

or is there a way to just add to an existing text without adding a text box

like to say goto this page this location and at the end of that text in the sentence, add this sentence and continue from the middle of that line to the next few lines.

or

should i concatenate the string to the constant string and post the whole para at a time. this way gaps are avoided and we can start the varible text from the middle of the para?

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

4. lrosenth,

Apr 16, 2012 11:39 PM in reply to jayshakir

Report

PDF is not a format designed for editing content in the way that you wish.

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

5. jayshakir,

Apr 17, 2012 6:30 AM in reply to lrosenth

Report

Then how do i accomplish this task, let us say below is the para on the acrobat file

Colestrol will accelerate heart disease risk by promoting fatty

deposits and inflammation in the arteries of the heart. Reduction

of excess body fat slows this process. Your Body Mass Index

indicates [<moderate obesity>] and it is a must [<that you lose

weight and increase exercise>] to reduce your risk of heart disease.

To accomplish this task, we are inserting two variables shown as [<bold>]

There are two issues here:-

1) [<moderate obesity>] - if this is a short word like "normal", then there will be white space at the end of the line.

2) [<that...exercise>] - this starts in the middle of a line and ends in the middle of the next line.

My guess is i need to add the variable string to the rest of the para at run time and set the whole para dynamically in one shot.

So the whole para would be comming in from the server side code.

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

6. jayshakir,

Apr 17, 2012 6:31 AM in reply to lrosenth

Report

also can i make part of the input string of a different style or font like this :-

Your Body Mass Index indicates moderate obesity and it is ...

Means can i have bold, italics, underlined in the middle of the text box, set dynamically?

Can it be HTML format maybe?

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

7. lrosenth,

Apr 17, 2012 11:10 AM in reply to jayshakir

Report

PDF is not designed to be used in this way. You should modify original material (such as HTML, Word, etc.) and then convert to PDF.

If you must do this type of thing, then put the ENTIRE PARAGRAPH in a form field and modify the field data.

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

8. Bernd Alheit,

Apr 17, 2012 12:42 PM in reply to jayshakir

Report

In a form text field you can use rich format.

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

9. jayshakir,

Apr 18, 2012 12:10 PM in reply to lrosenth

Report

thank you this is what i was assuming, generate the whole para and put into the form text box and set to multiline as true.

the only other question is have the combined text in the text box have multiple formats for different words in the same sentence

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

10. jayshakir,

Apr 18, 2012 12:11 PM in reply to Bernd Alheit

Report

okay tell me about how to set different words have differet style/color/appearances.

can we use html tags like <b> and </b> or <i> or <u>

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

11. lrosenth,

Apr 18, 2012 2:13 PM in reply to jayshakir

Report

No, you can't use HTML tags. You use the JavaScript APIs for creating rich text spans.

|

Mark as:

Currently Being Moderated

12. jayshakir,

Apr 18, 2012 3:05 PM in reply to lrosenth

Report

thanks let me know if there is any other way for rich text edit,

so for now, i will dynamically form each paragraph on the server side and put it inside the text box at run time, this way there are no gaps.

and to format some words of the paragraph differently, the only way is to use JavaScript APIs. I guess i can find these examples in the sdk kit, if not please provide.

eitherway, i thanks you both for all the help and assistance

|

Mark as:

Acrobat SDK

Add a text/sentence inside a PDF

Apr 16, 2012 12:20 PM

More Like This

Bookmarked By (0)

Answers + Points = Status