About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 6/1/2007 Subject: Printing
Question QUESTION: I am a fellow allexperts.com expert (in law of Nonprofit Organizations)
I have been using Adobe Acrobat Professional after I download the .pdf forms that US Immigration has online. I go offline into Adobe Acrobat Professional and have no problem with the I-130, I-485 and other forms but, with the I-864 Affidavit of Support form it always prints what I type in very faintly. Any ideas?
Harvey Mechanic
Attorney At Law
Los Angeles
ANSWER: Update Friday, June 1st, 4:33pm PST...
I was able to open the form and see that the text is 100 percent black in color, but the type style that is forced is Courier 10 points. This is probably not going to print very dark - you could change this on all the text boxes to Ariel or some other font, or change the type to a bold style...
- Hi Harvey,
Without seeing this form -- and being able to open the form in Adobe Designer (in Acrobat, under the Advanced menu, cascade select "Edit Fillable Form" - which launches Adobe Lifecycle Designer - AKA Adobe Designer) - i can't tell what the form's text entry settings are (or if you might be able to change them) - I will see if I can find this form online and get back to you - otherwise, if you could email me both one that behaves (such as the I-130) and this one that is not behaving as you would like (I-864) - that would speed things up a bit - send them to my michaelejahn@gmail.com email - my guess is that one the properties is either set with a lower opacity or a text entry color that is not 100 percent black - these forms sometimes can't be modified, so we may have to try other tricks like printing to PDF and then running it through something that converts all the objects to 100 percent black ....
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QUESTION: I tried to change earlier to Ariel bold using
Edit/Preferences
then highlighting Javascript then checking
"enable Acrobat Javascript" and under Javascript Editor
I clicked "Use Acrobat Javascript editor"
and then font: Ariel bold but that did not work. How do you suggest that I cange the type to a bold style instead?
Answer To change the form feild property, you need to open up the form in Adobe Designer, then under the Edit menu, select "Lock Text" and then select "Lock static objects" and then select "Select All" and then change the font to what you would like - then save the form and wah-la - the form now will enable you to use a different font - one with wider thicker character parts or even the one that is already selected, just change the attribute to BOLD...
