About Justin VanAlstyne Expertise I have a full working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 - 7.01. I have experience in creating interactive PDFs, embedding multimedia, web-based forms, creating presentations using PDF, advanced prepress preparation, PDF web optimization, color management, and using PDF as a soft-proofing tool. I do not have a lot of experience using Acrobat`s advanced Javascripting features, though a lot of custom functionality can be built into a PDF this way.
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Expert: Justin VanAlstyne Date: 10/27/2004 Subject: Tabbing within text fields of Adobe
Question Using Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional, I have a form which I did not create so do not know much about. There is an area which I believe has been designated a text field. I need to be able to tab within this text field to line up items correctly. How could I do this? Thank you.
Answer Donna-
I'm not sure that's a possibility. The text field capabilities of Acrobat are very primitive, as they are intended to be submitted to the web for integration into a database, or the results emailed to the receiving party. As such, any careful formating you do will be of no use once that data leaves the confines of that text box. It is not wise to create tables or bulleted lists or anything like that within one of those fields because you don't really know what will happen to that data after it is submitted. Formatting and line breaks to get it to look nice in the box will probably just make it harder to use/read on the backend.
