Created attachment 187076 [details] Screenshot showing the Adobe Acrobat 'Scroll long text' option Most of the forms I use are ultimately designed for signing with locked fields and the ability to print the final document with integrity. The default behavior of both single- and multi-line text boxes is to allow them to scroll once the end is reached. If the form user unwittingly enters too much text, the final printed product will be incomplete as the scrolled text will truncate. Therefore scrolling in text boxes must be disallowed for some forms. This ability exists in Adobe Acrobat: text box properties, options tab, 'Scroll long text' tickbox. This is ticked by default (screenshot attached). At the moment I need to post-process each PDF form in Acrobat and untick this for all text boxes. I propose a new field in text box form controls, 'Allow scrolling' with 2 options 'Yes' / 'No'. It could be placed just beneath the 'Text type' option. If no was selected then the exported PDF, when opened in Acrobat, would have the 'Scroll long text' option unticked. Thanks for your consideration.
Thanks Steve. Could you please provide an example ODT with the form field, and the PDF file after you did the post-processing in Adobe Acrobat? Much appreciated.
Created attachment 187124 [details] Source file with single line textbox
Created attachment 187125 [details] Exported pdf before post-processing
Created attachment 187126 [details] pdf after post-processing by unticking Scroll long text
Sure no problem. Here is an odt, the exported pdf, and the post-processed pdf after unticking 'Scroll long text' in Acrobat.
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Thank you for the attachments. I tested both PDFs in Firefox, Okular and GNOME Document Viewer and could not see a difference in filling the field. However, using Chromium, I could see the difference: the post-processed PDF does not allow adding more characters than whatever fits in the space allocated. Marking as new, seems like a sensible enhancement request to me.