Format Fonts for Text Field Default Values

Question

I am kind of new to Adobe Acrobat. I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro X. I am creating a fillable form, from scratch, basically. What I would like to do is be able to format a read only texbox so that it says something like this:

While this text is bold, this text will not be bold

The above is a sort of label before a check box or series of fill-in text boxes.

I can't seem to find a way to make only a portion of the text bold (or italic) the way that want. I realize I could build this word and then make the PDF, however, since the design of the form (and it's fillable) controls may change, and having to redesign the controls each time seems like a pain in the butt. I also realize I could add separate text boxes, choosing the -Bold or -Oblique font types, but that seems rather painful as well.

I am open to whatever solution works best. If there is an easy way to make design changes from Word, after the fillable fields are added. I am open to that, too.

Answer 1

Craft form and textbox in Adobe LiveCycle Designer - part Adobe Acrobat Pro X.

RichText tricks for TextField in Designer

Use Tab Order and Hierarchy windows in Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Shift+F11) for navigation.

Adobe Acrobat Pro X

Text Field Properties -> Options -> Custom calculation script >

Check! Allow Rich Text Formmating !!!

Text Field Properties -> Calculate-> Custom calculation script > Edit ...

var ObjectName = "Text1";
var JoinArrayStyle = new Array();

JoinArrayStyle[0] = new Object();
JoinArrayStyle[0].text = "While ";
JoinArrayStyle[0].textSize = 22;
JoinArrayStyle[0].textColor = color.red;

JoinArrayStyle[1] = new Object();
JoinArrayStyle[1].text = "this text is bold";
JoinArrayStyle[1].fontWeight = 900;
JoinArrayStyle[1].textSize = 24;
JoinArrayStyle[1].textColor = color.dkGray;

JoinArrayStyle[2] = new Object();
JoinArrayStyle[2].text = ", this text will not be bold.";
JoinArrayStyle[2].textSize = 22;
JoinArrayStyle[2].textColor = color.black;

this.getField(ObjectName).richValue = JoinArrayStyle;

Thx!

Plan B ... )))

Microsoft Word 2007 SP3 -> Acrobat X Pro Form

Create simple table

Select table

Change color border to Adobe corp. default style)).

Hold down the Ctrl key and the left mouse button, the pointer over the desired odd line, so select them. After any highlighted field by right click, go and choose "Border and shading ..."

Align text right, press Ctrl+R, or press button in panel after select table column.

Erase left cell border

Call Border and shading dialog

Set option in fill cell dialog.

Change text color tool Microsoft Word 2007.

Disabled color (vbGrayText) not set and not work in macros ... and I set dark grey)).

Save as Pdf Microsoft Word 2007. I not use Adobe add-on.

Microsoft Word 2007 Pdf resolution quality.

Microsoft Word 2007 Pdf options font.

Auto open pdf after save as Microsoft Word 2007 dialog.

Create or edit Form dialog part I

Create or edit Form dialog part II

View Adobe Acrobat Pro X Form.

Save Arcobat Pro X Form.

In paragraf field 3 text fragment ...

Plan C ...

Apache FOP create pdf file from XML. Command line:

foo.cmd -xml xslfoRef.xml -xsl xml2pdf.xsl -pdf xslfoRef.pdf

Apache FOP create TrueType Font Metrics:

java -cp build/fop.jar;lib\xmlgraphics-commons-1.4.jar;lib\commons-io-1.3.1.jar;lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;lib/serializer-2.7.0.jar org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader -ttcname "Cambria" %windir%\Fonts\CAMBRIA.TTC Cambria2.xml

Apache FOP create pdf include font Cambria:

fop.bat -c Cambria2.xml  -xml xslfoRef.xml -xsl xml2pdf.xsl -pdf xslfoRef.pdf

Adobe LiveCycle Designer

New Form in Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Use balnk form

set orientation

add view XML

add subform, text and form field

Text not edit in Acrobar X Pro!

Edit form field in Adobe X

Text template | XSLT.1 | HTML template XML | XSLT.2 | WordML template | WSH/powershell script | Adobe Pdf

TBD: XSLT_1, XSLT_2 - style text

Text template -

textempl.txt:

Full Name:
Company:
Job Title:
e-mail:
Phone:
Descriptions:\While \this text is bold\, this text will not be bold

getxtxml.xml:

<!DOCTYPE properties [<!ENTITY textempltxt SYSTEM "textempl.txt">]>
<body> &textempltxt;</body>

XML HTML template -

HTeMpLate.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="xstyle.xss"?>
<body>
<table>
 <tr>
   <td class="field-style">Full Name: </td>
   <td class="adobe-style"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="field-style">Company: </td>
   <td class="adobe-style"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="field-style">Job Title: </td>
   <td class="adobe-style"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="field-style">e-mail: </td>
   <td class="adobe-style"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="field-style">Phone: </td>
   <td class="adobe-style"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td class="field-style"><i>Descriptions: </i></td>
   <td class="description">
       <font class="Red"    color="FF0000">While </font>
       <font class="dkGray" color="595959">this text is bold</font>
       <font class="None"   color="000000">, this text will not be bold</font>
   </td>
 </tr>                                               
</table>
</body>

XML CSS file,

xstyle.xss:

@charset "UTF-8"; /* for Chrome Old ver */
/* test @: FireFox 18.0.1, Safari 5.1.7,Opera 12.12, Chrome 23.- 24., Internet Explorer 8  */
/* Style Sheets with XML */
body { display: block; width: 800px; align=left; border-width:0px; float:top; margin: 0; padding: 0; 
border: 0; outline: 0; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;}

table { display: table; width: 800px; align=right; float:top; 
border-spacing:10px;  /* FF18,Sf5,Op12,Ch24 eq IE8 margin-bottom: 10px; */
}

tr { display: table-row; width: 800px; float:top; margin-bottom:10px; }
td { display: table-cell; width: 400px; padding-left : 10px; padding-right: 10px; border-color: 1px solid #0070C0; text-align: right; float:top; }

td.field-style { display: table-cell; width: 400px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align : right; }
td.description { display: table-cell; width: 400px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align : left ; background-color: #FFFFE5;}
td.adobe-style { display: table-cell; width: 400px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align :     left ; border: 1px solid #0070C0;}

font.Red    { color: #FF0000; }
font.dkGray { color: #595959; font-weight: bold;}
font.None   { color: #000000; }

/* CSS3 FF18,Sf5,Op12,Ch24 */

tr > td[class="field-style"] { display: table-cell; width: 400px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right; }
tr > td[class="adobe-style"] { display: table-cell; width: 400px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align:  left; border: 1px solid #0070C0;}
tr > td[class="description"] { display: table-cell; width: 400px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align:  left; background-color: #FFFFE5;}

td > font[class="Red"   ] { color: #FF0000; }
td > font[class="dkGray"] { color: #595959; font-weight: bold;}
td > font[class="None"  ] { color: #000000; }

Convert HTeMpLate.xml - HTML template to Word XML 2003/ WordML template.

xml2wordml.cmd:

@echo off
msxsl.exe HTeMpLate.xml xml2wordml.xslt  -o wordml2003.xml

xml2wordml.xslt:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml" xml:space="preserve">
    <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="no"/>
<xsl:preserve-space elements="td"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:processing-instruction name="mso-application"><xsl:text>progid="Word.Document"</xsl:text></xsl:processing-instruction>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="body"><w:wordDocument xml:space="preserve" xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml">
<w:styles>
 <w:style w:type="table" w:default="on" w:styleId="TableNormal">
  <w:name w:val="Normal Table"></w:name>
 </w:style>
</w:styles>
<w:body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<!--                         Page layout                 -->
<w:sectPr><w:pgSz w:w="16838" w:h="11906" w:orient="landscape"></w:pgSz></w:sectPr>
</w:body>
</w:wordDocument>
</xsl:template>
<!--                         Start Table                 -->
<xsl:template match="table">
<w:tbl>
<w:tblPr>
   <w:tblW w:w="9570" w:type="dxa"></w:tblW>
    <w:tblBorders>
     <w:top w:val="nil" />
     <w:left w:val="nil" />
     <w:bottom w:val="nil" />
     <w:right w:val="nil" />
    </w:tblBorders>
</w:tblPr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[name()]"/>
</w:tbl>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="thead | tbody | tfoot">
<!--          WordProcessingML no equivalent                 -->
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="tr">
 <w:tr>
  <xsl:apply-templates />
 </w:tr>
<!--              Insert table row begin                     -->
<w:tr>
 <w:tc>
<w:tcPr><w:tcW w:w="4785" w:type="dxa"/></w:tcPr>
 <w:p></w:p>
 </w:tc>
 <w:tc>  
<w:tcPr><w:tcW w:w="4785" w:type="dxa"/></w:tcPr>
 <w:p></w:p>
 </w:tc>
</w:tr>
</xsl:template>
<!--              Table Header rule begin                    -->
    <xsl:template match="th">
<w:tc>
 <w:tcPr><w:tcW w:w="0" w:type="auto"/></w:tcPr>
  <w:p>
  <w:pPr><w:jc w:val="center"/></w:pPr>
  <w:r>
   <w:rPr><w:b/></w:rPr>
    <w:t><xsl:value-of select="."/></w:t>
    </w:r>
    </w:p>
    </w:tc>
        </xsl:template>
    <!--              Color Cell field-style begin              -->
    <xsl:template match="//tr/td[@class='field-style']">
     <w:tc>
      <w:tcPr><w:tcW w:w="0" w:type="auto"/>
      </w:tcPr>
  <w:p>
 <w:pPr><w:jc w:val="right" />
</w:pPr>
   <w:r>
<w:t><xsl:value-of select="."/></w:t>
   </w:r> 
  </w:p>
 </w:tc>
 </xsl:template>
<!--              Color Cell adobe-style begin              -->
<xsl:template match="//tr/td[@class='adobe-style']">
 <w:tc>
  <w:tcPr><w:tcW w:w="0" w:type="auto"/>
   <w:tcBorders>     
     <w:top     w:val="single" w:sz="2" w:color="0070C0"/>
     <w:left    w:val="single" w:sz="2" w:color="0070C0"/>
     <w:bottom  w:val="single" w:sz="2" w:color="0070C0"/>
     <w:right   w:val="single" w:sz="2" w:color="0070C0"/>
</w:tcBorders>
  </w:tcPr>
  <w:p>
 <w:pPr><w:jc w:val="left" />
</w:pPr>
   <w:r>
<w:t><xsl:value-of select="."/></w:t>
   </w:r> 
  </w:p>
 </w:tc>
 </xsl:template>
<!--              Color Cell description begin              -->
<xsl:template match="//tr/td[@class='description']">
<w:tc>
<w:tcPr><w:shd w:val="clear" w:color="auto" w:fill="FFFFE5" />
<w:tcW w:w="4279" w:type="dxa" /></w:tcPr>
  <w:p>
<xsl:for-each select="//tr/td[@class='description']/font">
<w:r>   
<w:rPr><w:color w:val="$getColor" /> </w:rPr>
<w:t><xsl:value-of select="."/></w:t> 
</w:r>
</xsl:for-each>
  </w:p>
 </w:tc>
</xsl:template>
<!--              Color Cell description end                -->
</xsl:stylesheet>     

Save documents open in 2007 Word SP3 as PDF, powershell script.

powershell .\word2pdf.ps1

word2pdf.ps1:

# word2pdf.ps1 STTR [e-mail]
[int]$wdFormatPDF = 17
$SaveAsFormat = [int]$wdFormatPDF
$SaveAsExt=".pdf"
$word = New-Object -ComObject word.application 
$word.visible = $false 
$SourceDir="C:\DocSourceDir"
$i =0
$Files = Get-ChildItem $SourceDir -recurse -include *.txt,*.doc,*.docx,*.rtf,*.xml
Foreach ($file in $Files) {
$doc = $word.documents.open($file.fullname) 
$saveFile=$file.DirectoryName + '\' + $file.BaseName + $SaveAsExt
$doc.saveas($saveFile, $SaveAsFormat)
$doc.close() 
$i++
                          }
$word.Quit() 
$word = $null 
[gc]::collect() 
[gc]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
write-host "Count : $i"

Save documents open in 2007 Word SP3 as PDF, WSH script:

cscript //Nologo doc2pdf.vbs wordml2003.xml

doc2pdf.vbs:

If WScript.Arguments.Count <1 then 
   Wscript.Echo "Ex.1: cscript //Nologo doc2pdf.vbs filename.ext"
   Wscript.Echo "Ex.2: cscript //Nologo doc2pdf.vbs wordml2003.xml"
   Wscript.Quit
End If

Dim strFilePath:strFilePath = WScript.Arguments.Item(0) 

docx2pdf strFilePath

Sub docx2pdf(OpenFile)
Const wdFormatPDF = 17

Dim WordDocument, FileProperties, strOpenFileName, strSavePDF

Dim FSO:Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

    If FSO.FileExists(OpenFile) Then

Dim WordApplication:Set WordApplication = CreateObject("Word.Application")

    WordApplication.Visible = False
        Set FileProperties = FSO.GetFile(OpenFile)
        strOpenFileName = FileProperties.Path

    Else
        WScript.Echo "File Open Error: file not exist!"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    strSavePDF = FSO.BuildPath(FileProperties.ParentFolder, FSO.GetBaseName(FileProperties) & ".pdf")
    WordApplication.Documents.Open strOpenFileName
    Set WordDocument = WordApplication.ActiveDocument
    WordDocument.SaveAs strSavePDF, wdFormatPDF
    WordDocument.Close
    WordApplication.Quit(False)
End Sub 

Answer 2

I don't know about acrobat, but most programs only allow textboxes to have one overall font.

Something you could do is draw it somewhere else (e.g. word), take a screenshot, and crop it in to look like a disabled textbox. Would that work for you?