How to add rich text to a text field in a PDF

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Akshay Rao

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Feb 17, 2011, 2:36:14 PM2/17/11
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Hello ,
 
I am building a form which has a few text fields . In one of them I would like to have rich text.
 
I would like to know how can I enable users to get bullet points in the text box ? the only way I can do it now is to copy paste fromw ord into the PDF text box.
 
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks,
Akshay

Jyothi

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Feb 17, 2011, 5:15:25 PM2/17/11
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You might want to try this.
Open the form in the designer. In the left navigation bar under
Heirarchy, select the field you want to change to Rich Text. In the
Object Editor on the right side,in the 'Field Format' property, select
Rich Text. I have never tried this. But I think this is the way to go.

Jyothi

Akshay Rao

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Feb 17, 2011, 5:17:19 PM2/17/11
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This enables the object to accept rich text , my question is what if the End User wants to type rich text (add bullet points to be specific) instead of just changing fonts etc.,

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Bob Bailey

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:14:30 PM2/18/11
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If you are in the rich text field and do a Ctrl e you should see the
rich text toolbar appear.

Bob




On Feb 17, 5:17 pm, Akshay Rao <akshayk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This enables the object to accept rich text , my question is what if the End
> User wants to type rich text (add bullet points to be specific) instead of
> just changing fonts etc.,
>

Akshay Rao

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:18:07 PM2/18/11
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Thanks a lot , im looking to add bullets specificaly , i dont seem to be able to find that option , can anyone please help out?
 
I really appreiate al the help so far.
 
thanks
akshay

Falor, Brian

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:27:27 PM2/18/11
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Try

 

TextField.rawValue = "•  Camera\n•  Lights\n•  Action";

 

You won’t be able to get bullets into the actual code.  Therefore try adding it to a text box first.  To get your bullets, • use Ctrl + 7 and it will produce a bullet point like the one to the left.  You can then copy and paste into your code.

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Duane Nickull

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:28:22 PM2/18/11
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I found a hack for this.  Basically, you can insert an entity reference like 
            <value>
               <exData contentType="text/html">
                  <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/"><p>&#8226; This is a bullet</p></body>
               </exData>
            </value>

into the source which then gets turned into a bullet.  You would have to maybe place a button beside it that says "add bullet" or something and then write script to add a new line and bullet whenever the button was hit.  The attached screenshot shows that this does indeed work.

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Falor, Brian

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:28:38 PM2/18/11
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Incidentally – this should work even in plain text

Falor, Brian

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:31:26 PM2/18/11
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Sorry – didn’t look back into this thread far enough – you want users to be able to type in bullet points

Akshay Rao

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:32:26 PM2/18/11
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yes i want users to be able to type them

Falor, Brian

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Same thing – as long as you have Rich Text selected.  Instruct them to type in Ctrl + 7 and you should get a bullet point.

Duane Nickull

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:34:15 PM2/18/11
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Use the approach I showed you and place a button  on your form that says “Insert new Bullet” and have it write the entity reference.

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Duane Nickull

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:35:17 PM2/18/11
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This doesn’t work on Mac.

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Falor, Brian

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:41:36 PM2/18/11
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Maybe try this in your “Insert Bullet” button click event:

 

if (TextField.rawValue == null)

    {

    TextField.rawValue = " •  ";

    }

else {

    TextField.rawValue += "•  ";

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Duane Nickull

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:48:27 PM2/18/11
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I got it to wortk with this

 form1.#subform[0].Button2::click - (JavaScript, client)
this.resolveNode("RichText").rawValue = this.resolveNode("RichText").rawValue + "•";

See attached PDF
AddBullet.xdp

Duane Nickull

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:49:55 PM2/18/11
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Duane Nickull

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Feb 18, 2011, 2:04:02 PM2/18/11
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It makes a textbook definition of a great online forum is when you have multiple people offering solutions to your problems!

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Falor, Brian

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Feb 18, 2011, 2:05:28 PM2/18/11
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See it all the time here.  Great forum!

 

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