Archive for August, 2007

Text alignment in form fields

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

This question came up on a private list. How do I set an Acrobat text field to start in the middle, top or bottom of the field? Note that is applies to forms created in Acrobat Professional. This feature has been available since version 6.

2) Go into Preview/Hand tool mode.

3) Enter some text and select it.

4) Bring up the Properties Toolbar.

5) Click on More.

6) Click on Paragraph. You have basic para formatting options now, including top, bottom and middle alignment.

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LiveCycle Designer ES Upgrade available

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Adobe has quietly made the upgrade to LiveCycle Designer ES available at the Adobe store. It’s been available as a free trial, but mine is about to expire. Looks like it will cost around $45 US, including shipping.

‘ LiveCycleIn case you are wondering, the LiveCycle suite and Acrobat are on different release cycles. We get a new version of Designer with a new version of Acrobat, but an even newer version of Designer gets released with an update of the LiveCycle suite. Although called ES, the version number on my trial is 8.1, the same as the latest version of Acrobat.

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