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From: JD on 10 Jul 2010 22:51
Ian Jackson wrote:
> In message <Xns9DB251A78AD3Dtroppo19(a)210.8.230.25>, troppo
> <troppo19(a)gmail.com> writes
>> JD <JD(a)No-where.con> wrote in news:89rq2tFqagU1(a)mid.individual.net:
>>
>>> Does anyone know how to darken the barely legible
>>> characters that appear when filling out a form?
>>> It's a very pale grey. How to darken it?
>>>
>>> So much trivia that blots out the important things!
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>
>> This is a potentially useful but irritating program :-(
>> How do you set the default font? Could be the solution to the OP
>> question -
>> default seems to be Courier, and is very pale.
>> Basically, you need to get the Manual -
>> www.docu-track.com/pdf/Manual.pdf
>> Go to page 192, follow the (excessively long-winded) method for
>> setting the
>> default font.
>> You need to type ctrl-e to turn on the options toolbar, but there's more
>> ...
> If you're talking about the Typewriter tool...
> Click on the Typewriter Tool.
> Click on the document (to open a typewriter field).
> The font toolbar should open.
> Set the font you want (font, size, bold, colour etc).
> Right-click on the typewriter field.
> In the drop-down menu, click on 'Set Current Appearance as Default'.
> And that's it.

Thank you Ian.

I couldn't have figured that in a week.

Have a great weekend :-)
From: JD on 10 Jul 2010 23:30
troppo wrote:
> JD <JD(a)No-where.con> wrote in news:89rq2tFqagU1(a)mid.individual.net:
>
>> Does anyone know how to darken the barely legible
>> characters that appear when filling out a form?
>> It's a very pale grey. How to darken it?
>>
>> So much trivia that blots out the important things!
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
> Type ctrl-E to turn on the options toolbar.
> Download the manual.
> Go to page 192, follow the instructions - "How to set a new default font "
> etc.
> The manual appears to be damaged - I had to use a screen grabber to extract
> the page and print it.
> PDFXViewer is very useful but also very irritating - setting default
> settings is long-winded and unintuitive.


Thanks again guys. I looked through your
instructions and could not find anything
that helped. So I dumped PDFXViewer and did the
job with Irfanview. Maybe in the next century
PDFXViewer will be usable.
From: Martin Clark on 11 Jul 2010 08:52
JD <JD(a)No-where.con> wrote in news:89sptoF4kuU1(a)mid.individual.net:

> Ian Jackson wrote:
>> In message <Xns9DB251A78AD3Dtroppo19(a)210.8.230.25>, troppo
>> <troppo19(a)gmail.com> writes
>>> JD <JD(a)No-where.con> wrote in news:89rq2tFqagU1(a)mid.individual.net:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how to darken the barely legible
>>>> characters that appear when filling out a form?

Ignore my ramblings - I was also about to chuck it but the following
response works ok:

>> If you're talking about the Typewriter tool...
>> Click on the Typewriter Tool.
>> Click on the document (to open a typewriter field).
>> The font toolbar should open.
>> Set the font you want (font, size, bold, colour etc).
>> Right-click on the typewriter field.
>> In the drop-down menu, click on 'Set Current Appearance as Default'.
>> And that's it.

From: Ian Jackson on 11 Jul 2010 09:43
In message <Xns9DB2E8BB45FD3MartinClark(a)210.8.230.25>, Martin Clark
<mclark19(a)aapt.net.au> writes
>JD <JD(a)No-where.con> wrote in news:89sptoF4kuU1(a)mid.individual.net:
>
>> Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> In message <Xns9DB251A78AD3Dtroppo19(a)210.8.230.25>, troppo
>>> <troppo19(a)gmail.com> writes
>>>> JD <JD(a)No-where.con> wrote in news:89rq2tFqagU1(a)mid.individual.net:
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know how to darken the barely legible
>>>>> characters that appear when filling out a form?
>
>Ignore my ramblings - I was also about to chuck it but the following
>response works ok:
>
>>> If you're talking about the Typewriter tool...
>>> Click on the Typewriter Tool.
>>> Click on the document (to open a typewriter field).
>>> The font toolbar should open.
>>> Set the font you want (font, size, bold, colour etc).
>>> Right-click on the typewriter field.
>>> In the drop-down menu, click on 'Set Current Appearance as Default'.
>>> And that's it.
>
I'm glad you got it to work. Has 'JD') given up?

It may be worth mentioning that there IS one problem which I have with
the PDF-XChange Viewer typewriter tool, and that is with the Border
Style of the text box (where the typewriting goes).

For filling forms, I usually set the line width to '0' (no line), and
set this to be the default style. However, every so often, there is a
tendency for this to change to '1' (which I think is the original
default), so I get an unwanted line. But it's easily re-set and
liveable-with. Maybe it's just something I'm doing!
--
Ian
From: JD on 11 Jul 2010 12:24
Martin Clark wrote:
> JD <JD(a)No-where.con> wrote in news:89sptoF4kuU1(a)mid.individual.net:
>
>> Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> In message <Xns9DB251A78AD3Dtroppo19(a)210.8.230.25>, troppo
>>> <troppo19(a)gmail.com> writes
>>>> JD <JD(a)No-where.con> wrote in news:89rq2tFqagU1(a)mid.individual.net:
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know how to darken the barely legible
>>>>> characters that appear when filling out a form?
>
> Ignore my ramblings - I was also about to chuck it but the following
> response works ok:
>
>>> If you're talking about the Typewriter tool...
>>> Click on the Typewriter Tool.
>>> Click on the document (to open a typewriter field).
>>> The font toolbar should open.
>>> Set the font you want (font, size, bold, colour etc).
>>> Right-click on the typewriter field.
>>> In the drop-down menu, click on 'Set Current Appearance as Default'.
>>> And that's it.

Thanks Martin. I got my job done with Irfanview in
about 10 minutes.

I don't understand the following:

>>> If you're talking about the Typewriter tool...
>>> Click on the Typewriter Tool.

OK Martin and a small postage stamp size window
opens for a second or two and then vanishes.
Then to the right of the word Typewriter is a Text
Tool Box that disappears equally quickly after
being clicked.
To the right of that is the Callout Tool - same
thing - opens a tiny window and then shuts it.

>>> Click on the document (to open a typewriter
field).

What document? and what is a "typewriter field"?
If you are referring to the postage stamp size
windows, they don't stay open long enough to do
anything.

Must there be a document already opened in XChange
Viewer? I tried with and without
a document in the Viewer but there was no difference.

Speaking of brainlessness - this program really
takes the biscuit.

Enjoy your weekend Martin or what's left of it.

Thanks for trying :-)

>>> The font toolbar should open.
>>> Set the font you want (font, size, bold,
colour etc).
>>> Right-click on the typewriter field.
>>> In the drop-down menu, click on 'Set Current
Appearance as Default'.
>>> And that's it.
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