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02-04-2015, 07:49 PM
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RE: HP program forms
(02-04-2015 01:45 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  You will find that various Acrobat file viewers (especially free Acrobat writers) interpret files differently, in many ways, not just alignment. The only sensible thing to do is optimize for Adobe Reader (free too, after all) and if folks choose other viewers, then minor issues could appear.

No offense meant Dieter, Foxit is fine and widely used, it's just not wide enough to warrant driving form design intended for a wide audience, imho.

Of course I agree that if there is a standard, this has to be the target for any design. If other software does not agree with this standard, problems may arise.

In this case I assume it was not Abobe Acrobat that was used for designing the forms, and my PDF reader was "third party software" either. So I tried the file with an "official" Adobe Acrobat Reader version XI on Win7/64. Two things turned out:
  • The form fields still appeared slightly low. Especially the fields for date, page, author etc. with the Helvetica font were almost half a line lower than what I would consider perfectly aligned. So Acrobat Reader XI shares this problem with Foxit Reader.
  • The fields for the key sequence ("operations") look better. If the boxes for the keys are filled, Acrobat Reader XI uses a fixed Courier font that is (quite) properly aligned. Foxit Reader here uses the same (or a similar) Helvetica font which is slightly low, some characters even touch the lower border of the filled boxes.

So maybe this is a font issue. Foxit Reader seems to use the same font for all fields in the PDF form.

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HP program forms - Dieter - 12-14-2014, 09:24 PM
RE: HP program forms - Sylvain Cote - 12-14-2014, 10:35 PM
RE: HP program forms - walter b - 12-14-2014, 11:38 PM
RE: HP program forms - Dieter - 12-15-2014, 08:31 PM
RE: HP program forms - Sylvain Cote - 12-15-2014, 09:28 PM
RE: HP program forms - Dieter - 12-16-2014, 08:49 PM
RE: HP program forms - Sylvain Cote - 12-22-2014, 03:46 AM
RE: HP program forms - Dieter - 12-22-2014, 08:02 PM
RE: HP program forms - Sylvain Cote - 02-02-2015, 01:17 AM
RE: HP program forms - Dieter - 02-02-2015, 09:52 PM
RE: HP program forms - Sylvain Cote - 02-02-2015, 11:09 PM
RE: HP program forms - Dieter - 02-03-2015, 08:41 PM
RE: HP program forms - Sylvain Cote - 02-04-2015, 05:01 AM
RE: HP program forms - Dieter - 02-04-2015, 06:48 AM
RE: HP program forms - rprosperi - 02-04-2015, 01:45 PM
RE: HP program forms - Dieter - 02-04-2015 07:49 PM
RE: HP program forms - rprosperi - 02-05-2015, 02:03 AM
RE: HP program forms - Dieter - 02-05-2015, 01:56 PM
RE: HP program forms - rprosperi - 02-05-2015, 03:02 PM
RE: HP program forms - Sylvain Cote - 12-17-2014, 06:10 AM
RE: HP program forms - Don Shepherd - 12-18-2014, 03:40 PM
RE: HP program forms - rprosperi - 12-18-2014, 03:50 PM
RE: HP program forms - Sylvain Cote - 12-18-2014, 06:07 PM
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RE: HP program forms - Sylvain Cote - 11-24-2015, 03:36 PM
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