more form fonts in acrobat 5 than 4?

[a...@camart.co.uk]

in acrobat 4, only a few fonts were allowed in form fields....

does anyone know, has this changed at all with acrobat 5?

is it possible now to use any font in an acrobat form field?

thanks

aparimana

[Aandi Inston]

"a...@camart.co.uk" <a...@camart.co.uk> wrote:

>in acrobat 4, only a few fonts were allowed in form fields....
>
>does anyone know, has this changed at all with acrobat 5?

Yes.

>
>is it possible now to use any font in an acrobat form field?

Many fonts. Of course all form users need 5 or above.
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[Phillip Pan]

> in acrobat 4, only a few fonts were allowed in form fields....

Could not believe that.

>
> does anyone know, has this changed at all with acrobat 5?

No clue.

>
> is it possible now to use any font in an acrobat form field?

It is possible to do that programmatically in iText, (a Java PDF
library). You can use any font for formfield as long as you embed the
font in PDF. This actually give you the control to show the font in
form field. But this will need lots of work in writing the code in
Java.

Go to: http://itext.sourceforge.net and have a look at the software.
You can contact me offlist if you require a sample PDF generated using
iText.

Cheers,
Phillip Pan

[a...@camart.co.uk]

to reply to my own question (in case any google-groupers are looking for the answer to this later)...

it would seem that it IS possible to use any font now (ie acro 5) in form fields

ap