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Hi all Im using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC on Windows 7. Im running into an issue where the final line of a text paragraph in a form field is spaced differently than the rest of the text. I have included an image below.
I have done some searches but all the results I have found that answer a question similar to this are for indesign and not Acrobat. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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How did you create the file?
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The file was originally created by someone else, as far as I know it was created in Adobe Acrobat but I can't verify that 100%
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Acrobat is not usually used to create files from scratch, but to convert them from another format to PDF. If you look under File - Properties - Description and then Application or PDF Producer it might give you a hint as to where it originally came from.
At any rate, this issue needs to be addressed in the original file format, and then a new PDF needs to be created.
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Ah yes under application it says: Nitro Pro 11. You say this issue cannot be fixed in Acrobat? seems strange to me, its Acrobat that is rendering the file at the end of the day. How could it be that it is rendering text using rules it understands but cannot change?
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I didn't say Acrobat can't do it. You can try to do it using the Edit Text & Images tool, but it's not guaranteed that the result will be good.
And your question is not logically sound. There are plenty of applications that can display files but not edit them. Think of a video player, for example. It can show a movie but that doesn't mean you can use it to edit one... A PDF is not just text and images, it's a complex file made out of content streams that are not visible when viewing it, but which make editing it a very complex task.
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You said that it's a form field. Is it really a form field? This is extremely important as the process for editing form fields is different in every way from the process of editing page contents.
By the way, on PDF, there are no rules for rendering text at all. Each character has a position on the page; that's where you see them, and all there is to it. The rules were used by another app, to decide where each character goes. The editing in Acrobat does a near miraculous job of running over the page, guessing where lines, words and paragraphs are, and giving a kind of primitive editor.
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Thanks for all the replies. For clarity I should describe the files I am using. They are templates with form fields for text entry which are blank in the origional downloads. I am combining those downloaded pages into a single document in Acrobat and using the javascript console to generate pages from those blank templates (using auto form renaming) which I am then entering text into within Acrobat. So Acrobat is not interpreting or recognising the text entered in another program.
So in order to test the behaviour based on what try67 was saying I re-opened the origional file that I downloaded before editing and pasted the same text into the same field in that file and the issue does not appear it would seem. As you can see below:
So as I am using the javacript console to generate pages from templates I decided to test this further. I copied the text out of my edited file that has the issue I described into another program (notepad) and then back into the file in question and that seems to fix it also! (shown below)
Test screen name yes they are form fields not text boxes, they have names etc, when I go to their properties the window is called "Text Field Properties".
Very strange behaviour to me, I guess this is a quirk of Acrobat as you guys where saying? Well I learned something today.
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Ok so the issue is not resolved but I discovered something. I can reproduce the issue now: it seems to be caused by hitting enter to move to a new line.
I tried copying the text out and then back in like I was describing with my last post, but this time it didn't fix the problem (pictured below)
Since the difference between this text and the previous text is that I have a second section ("Movement:..." in the image) with a space in between, I tested what would happen if I removed the space. As you can see in the image below, once I hit the enter key to place the text onto another line below the rest of the text it automatically increases the space between the last two lines of the preceeding text.
For clarity; in the above image I placed the cursor after the full stop following the word "range" and hit enter to place the sentence starting "Movement:" onto another tline. The space between the part of line ending in "target" and the part beginning "must" which are part of the same continious sentance, increases as shown.
I'm using Helvetica.
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Which font do you use in the form field?