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April 30, 2012
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Is it possible to have fonts larger than 72pt?

  • April 30, 2012
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Have been looking for a work around for this problem for awhile now but can't seem to get anywhere. Is it possible to have fonts bigger than 72pt? If not that is a massive fail.

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Best answer by _Bruce_Robertson

I see what you mean now, it seems to be an issue with artwork PDF forms, I don't have a problem with a standard PDF form.

I did get the font size to stick, https://acrobat.com/#d=RnEQbNdhe26z-bPYyVnEYQ is my sample.

But I had to edit the XML Source (from the View menu), so the line;

<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/"><p>99</p></body>

 

became

<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/"><p style="font-size:300pt">99</p></body>

That is I added the font-size style attribute.

Hope that helps.

Bruce

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Anonymous
May 1, 2012

yeah ive got ES2 9.0.0.2 im pretty sure this wasn't an issue in older versions just can't remember when the last time I made a document with larger fonts though.

_Bruce_Robertson
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May 1, 2012

I see what you mean now, it seems to be an issue with artwork PDF forms, I don't have a problem with a standard PDF form.

I did get the font size to stick, https://acrobat.com/#d=RnEQbNdhe26z-bPYyVnEYQ is my sample.

But I had to edit the XML Source (from the View menu), so the line;

<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/"><p>99</p></body>

 

became

<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/"><p style="font-size:300pt">99</p></body>

That is I added the font-size style attribute.

Hope that helps.

Bruce

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Anonymous
May 2, 2012

Thanks mate that's awesome, it's a pain it doesn't work just by typing it into the font size box but that work around will do! I might need to open another topic for this but the next problem I'm having is when inserting a .PNG image it is putting a white background around it don't suppose you know how to fix that one as well? I'm pretty sure it never used to do that as well.

Thanks for your help!

_Bruce_Robertson
_Bruce_Robertson
Level 10
May 2, 2012

You have me there, and the website I used to refer to for this sort of stuff seems to be no more.  There are some limitations in how Acrobat handles images with transparent color but I'm not sure exactly what it is now, something to do with only using 8 bit color (I think PNG is usually 24bit), or maybe it was something about only using palette color.

Sorry, I think you will have to start another thread.

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