Create a PDF form with a locked font and size

[ThomasBB83]

Hello!

We're contemplating how to enable our retail stores to create their own signs, based on a centralized design that we impose on them. Currently they just do whatever they please, which leads to some hideous signs which all over the place, in terms of design.

We figured we could make a PDF-file and set a few fields up as Forms - more specifically, the price and how many pieces you'd need to buy to get the rebate. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to lock the Forms-fields to a specific font and size. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Or is there another approach you'd recommend instead?

Thanks in advance!

[Karl Heinz Kremer · Accepted solution]

On the form field properties, go to the "Appearance" tab and set your font size and font. If somebody only has Reader when they fill in the form, they cannot modify this information. For somebody with Adobe Acrobat, you have to do a bit more: You can apply document security settings that prevent them from modifying the document. You do that in Document Properties (Ctrl-D or Cmd-D), and then go to the Security tab. Here you apply "Password security" and then use the "Restrict editing..." option. Make sure you pick an option that allows "Form filling" - you of course also have to allow printing:

[ThomasBB83]

Well, that was embarrasingly easy. Guess I needed to look at it with glasses on! Thanks Karl Heinz (and try67)! 

[try67]

Form fields are locked to a specific font and size, unless the users are editing them using Acrobat or if you've set them as having Rich Text Formatting.

If you did the latter, then don't. If it's the former and the users are editing those fields then you can apply a security policy to the file that will allow them to fill in form fields, but not edit them.