Java Script to allow character spacing in editable PDF?

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Java Script to allow character spacing in editable PDF?

So, through this forum, I have learned how to have text displayed when I have created editable text boxes in acrobat (thank you, George Johnson)so that the client can open in Reader and see example text

// If field is blank, display this text
if (!event.value) event.value = "Your name here";

by inserting in to Custom Format Scripts in Text Field Properties......can we take this one step further and space the lettering in this field?
Karen

Karen Thring

Answer 1

Try this script, I think it will do what you want:

var text = event.value;
if (!text) {
    text = "Your name here";
}

text = text.split("").join(" "); 
event.value = text;

By Almir R V Santos

Answer 2

You can't set the letter spacing, so the best you can do is add one or ore spaces between the letters. It would be possible to automatically do this with a format script, but easier to just do this:

if (!event.value) event.value = "Y o u r  n a m e  h e r e";

George Johnson

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