New PDF Form Field: Text Field

(See Example PDF and Example PDFill Project File  )

A Text PDF field is a box or space in which the user can enter text from the keyboard.

1. Create a Text Form Field:

Here are the steps to create a Text form field:

• Choose Menu Insert > Form Fields > Select Text Field Tools, or click the first button in the Forms Toolbar.

• Hold Left mouse button to create a form field of the required size
• The new form field properties dialog comes up to set options
• To create multiple fields in one time, click the Table Tools
• To adjust the height of the box using the Font Size, click the Height Adjust Tool
• You can create fields with the same name inside the same page or across different page

2. To access form field properties:

• Click the Selection button first.
• Click inside the field to highlight it and click Properties Button
• Or, click the edge shadow and double-click again
• Or, Key F4

3. Set Field Properties:

Here is the list of the properties.

Field Name	The name to define the field. Two fields can have the same name and they will have the same value string.
Field Value	The value of the field. It is the text string entered from the keyboard.
Multiline	If set, the field can contain multiple lines of text; if clear, the field’s text is restricted to a single line.
Default Value	A reset-form action resets the entire interactive form fields to their default values. When the user submits the form, if this field is not filled, this value will be submitted;
Tooltips	Inside Adobe Reader, the user hovers the cursor over the field, without clicking it, and a small box appears with supplementary information regarding the field being hovered over. This is useful to help the user fill the form.
Font Encode	Click here to see the listed links to international graphical representations, and textual listings, of each of the Windows codepages that PDFill supports.
Font Name	Some font is empty for the selected Font Encode. You must play with several fonts to see if it works inside PDFill.
Font Enbed	Font Embedding allows the fonts used in the creation of a PDF form to travel with that PDF document, ensuring that a user sees PDF Form Fields exactly as the designer intended them to be seen. But, it requires bigger PDF file size. There are 3 options: Auto, NOT Embedded and Embedded.
Font Style	Font Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic.
Font Size	If set 0, the font size will be adjusted automatically according so that all the text will be fitted into the box.
Font Color	The color of the text.
Alignment	Text Alignment inside the box: Left, Center and Right.
Rotate	The text direction inside the box: 0, 90, 180 or 270.
Max Chars	The maximum length of the field’s text, in characters. If 0, there is no limit.
Visibility	Visible: Display and Printable. Hidden: do not display or allow it to interact with the user and not can not print. Visible but Don’t Print: don’t print this field even if it is displayed on the screen. Hidden but Printable: even if it is not displayed, it will print on the page.
Read Only	If set, the user may not change the value of the field. Any associated widget annotations will not interact with the user; that is, they will not respond to mouse clicks or change their appearance in response to mouse motions.
Required	If set, the field must have a value at the time it is exported by a submit-form action (see “Submit-Form Actions” on page 662).
No Scroll Long Text	If set, the field does not scroll (horizontally for single-line fields, vertically for multiple-line fields) to accommodate more text than fits within its annotation rectangle. Once the field is full, no further text is accepted.
No Spell Check	If set, text entered in the field is not spell-checked.
Password	If set, the field is intended for entering a secure password that should not be echoed visibly to the screen. Characters typed from the keyboard should instead be echoed in some unreadable form, such as asterisks or bullet characters. To protect password confidentiality, viewer applications should never store the value of the text field in the PDF file if this flag is set.
File Selection	If set, the text entered in the field represents the pathname of a file whose contents are to be submitted as the value of the field.
Position (Left, Right, Top, Bottom)	The X and Y coordinate of the box to define the position of the field.
Fill Color	The background color of the field, If set, it will be opaque.
Border Color	The color the border line.
Border Width	The line thickness of the border.
Border Style	Solid: a solid rectangle surrounding the annotation. Dashed: a dashed rectangle surrounding the annotation. Beveled: a simulated embossed rectangle that appears to be raised above the surface of the page. Inset: a simulated engraved rectangle that appears to be recessed below the surface of the page. Underline: a single line along the bottom of the annotation rectangle.
Action: Add Link, Submit, JavaScript and more ...	See PDF Actions
Adjust Box Height using Font Size	The height of the box will be adjusted according to the font size
Set this field as default	If set, the new field will have the same properties as this one.

4. Screenshot

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