For some reason, the behavior of the text fields changed today, allowing me to solve one problem while a new one appeared.
Now when I create a text field and open it in either Adobe X or Foxit Reader the font size is constant and no longer changes size depending on the amount of the text. I don't know why this behaving differently today. In one way this is good, because now I can change the font size of the field in Scribus using either the Properties or Edit Text windows. The font stays that size in the form--this is progress!
Unfortunately, I don't know how to control the rest of the behavior. If I don't choose multi-line, the text scrolls to the left when it reaches the end of the box, whereas before it would become smaller and wraparound onto a different line. I would like to be able to use both styles on my form. Changing the Field Properties to multi-line is helpful, which causes the text to wrap. However, the multi-lines are double-spaced and I need single-spaced. Changing the font properties of the field doesn't help this situation.
In summary, how do I control the following:
- self-scaling versus static font sizes in text fields
- single versus double-line spacing in text fields
It would be great if I could create text fields with minimum and maximum font sizes that automatically scale depending on the size of the field, wrapping around to the next single-spaced line. The technology seems to exist in the PDF format, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not implementable. At the least, there seems to be a toggle for scaling versus static. I haven't seen a single-spaced field yet, so purposes the PDF format doesn't support it.
Thank you for any help!
(edit for finding a partial solution for font size)