Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about fonts and forms in Writer

On 05/11/2014 11:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Can you right-click on the boxes or select them all and set their
> properties?  
>
> Err, when you say converting a Word document into a form - for most
> things it is often better to start off with a fresh document in ODF
> format when you find yourself struggling with odd weirdnesses.  
> Documents that were previously in some other format, particularly MS
> formats (especially the various versions of DocX or Rtf), often have
> tons of hidden coding stuffing things up.  A fresh start often helps.
>  ODF is the better format for stability between different versions of
> software. 

Ok, I FINALLY had some time to look into this.   I created a form from
scratch and it behaved much better than the Word document I converted
into a form.  I'm not sure why, since the Word document didn't have any
form fields so the form fields I added were in LibreOffice Writer but
starting with a fresh document resulted in a much better behaving PDF
form.  :)

Thanks again!

Peace...

"The other" Tom  :)

> How about Chapter 15 in this guide?
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide
> I haven't read it so i don't know if it covers setting properties for
> the boxes
>
> Regards from 
> Tom :)  
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11 May 2014 17:59, Tom Williams <tomdkat@comcast.net
> <mailto:tomdkat@comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi!  I'm converting a Word document into a form that will
>     eventually be
>     a PDF form that can be filled in using Adobe Reader.   I'm doing
>     this in
>     LibreOffice Writer 4.2.3.3 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04.
>
>     My first pass worked splendidly well and everything worked fine except
>     for two issues:
>
>      1. I can't seem to control the font used in the form controls, namely
>         the text boxes
>      2. I can't get the text boxes to align text at the top (despite my
>         setting the form control to align text at the top)
>
>     Does anyone reading this list have much experience with creating forms
>     in Writer?   With regard to issue #2, when I enter text into a
>     text box,
>     it's vertically centered vs being aligned along the top of the text
>     box.  This is when I view the generated PDF file in Ubuntu's PDF
>     document viewer, the text I typed wasn't aligned at the top of the
>     text
>     box.  I'm not sure if this is an Ubuntu document view issue or an
>     issue
>     with the generated PDF file.  I'll test in Adobe Reader later.
>
>     With regard to issue #1, is there any way to control the font used for
>     the text boxes in a form?
>
>     Thanks in advance for your time and assistance!
>
>     Peace...
>
>     Tom
>
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