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PDFill PDF Filler: Multiple Line Text Tool

 (See Example PDF and Example PDFill Project File  )

You can use this tool to insert a styled multiple text string into PDF document anywhere with the following options:

• You can change Font Encode, Font Name, Font Style, Font Enbed, Font Color and Font Size.
• You can rotate the text relative to the center of the box.
• You can set Stroke Type, Stroke Color, Stroke Size, Under Line and Strike Through.
• You can set First Line Indent, Line Spacing, Horizontal and Vertical Alignment.
• You can set the position of the text box and the margin distance from the text to the border.
• You can set the text border's width, color, style and shape.
• You can set the Whiteout (background or filling color), Highlight ,Transparency and PDF Action.
• You can set whether the text will show on the Foreground or Background of the PDF document.

Please note that this tool adds Static Text that the user cannot change. If you need to add interactive text field that the user can fill and print, please use Text PDF Form Field.

1. Steps on how to type a Multiple Line Text onto PDF Page:

• Choose Menu Insert > Select Multiple Line Text

 or check Multiple Line Text button to insert a multiple line text from the Format Toolbar.

• Hold and drag the left mouse button to draw the rectangle area for the new text area. 

• To move the text, Move the cursor to the shadow area to see the Move icon to come up, then, drag the left mouse button to move the current object. Or, after you click the edge shadow area, move the Left, Right, Up and Down arrows. To edit the text, click inside and type text. To rotate the image,  hold the rotation bar and drag the mouse to rotate.

• To Align the objects, Edit Menu > Align Tools or Select Align Tools from Forms or Main Tool Bar;

2. Access the properties:

• Click the Selection button first.
• Click inside the line to highlight it and click Properties Button
• Or, click the line and double-click again
• Or, Key F4

3. Set the properties:

Here is the list of the properties.

String	It is the text string entered from the keyboard.
Font Encode	Click here to see the listed links to international graphical representations, and textual listings, of each of the Windows codepages that PDFill supports.
Font Name	Some font is empty for the selected Font Encode. You must play with several fonts to see if it works inside PDFill.
Font Style	Font Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic.
Font Enbed	Font Embedding allows the fonts used in the creation of a text string to travel with that PDF document, ensuring that a user sees that text string exactly as the designer intended them to be seen. But, it requires bigger PDF file size. There are 3 options: Auto, NOT Embedded and Embedded.
Font Color	The color of the text.
Font Size	The size of the Font
Stroke Type	The Type of Striking: Fill, Strike, Fill and Strike, Invisible and Searchable
Stroke Color	The color of the strike.
Stroke Size	The size of strike relative to the font size.
Rotate	The rotation degree from 3 clock relative to the Text Box center.
Run Direction	The Option for Text Run Direction: Default Run Direction; No Bidirectional Reordering; Left To Right (LTR); Right To Left (RTL). Bidirectional Text: Middle eastern languages such as Hebrew and Arabic are written predominantly right-to-left. Numbers are written with the most significant digit left-most, just as in European or other left-to-right text. Languages written in left-to-right scripts are often mixed in, so the complete document is bidirectional in nature, a mix of both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR) writing.
Arabic Shaping	The option for Arabic Shaping: None; Eliminate Vowels: Eliminate the Arabic vowels; Compose Tashkeel: Compose the tashkeel in the ligatures; Extra Double Ligatures: Do some extra double ligatures.
First Line Indent	The first line indent in a paragraph
Line Spacing	The space in a paragraph between the lines in the unit of point or Lines
Horizontal Alignment	Text Alignment in horizontal direction:  Left, Central, Right and Justify
Vertical Alignment	Text Alignment in vertical direction:  Top, Middle and Bottom
UnderLine	a single line along the bottom of text
StrikeThrough	A line in the middle of the text
Position (Left, Right, Top, Bottom)	The X and Y coordinate of the box to define the position of the field.
Margin (Left, Right, Top, Bottom)	The distance from the text to the border of the text.
Border Points	The thickness of the border in point.
Border Color	The color for the border.
Border Style	There are 8 Dashed Styles: Solid, Round Dot, Square Dot, Dash, Dash Dot, Long Dash, Long Dash Dot, Long Dash Dot Dot.
Border Shape	There are 6 Shapes around the text: Rectangle, Square, Ellipse, Circle, Isosceles Triangle, Equilateral Triangle and Diamond. To make the text in the center of the shape, select Horizontal Alignment to be Central and Vertical Alignment to be Middle.
Whiteout (Fill Color)	The background color of the field, If set, it will be opaque. It can be used to cover the original text and add a new text. Click this option to set the Whiteout color. To hide Property Dialog, See PDFill Options.
Highlight	A transparent color (yellow) to highlight an area with text or image. Click this option to set the highlight color. To hide Property Dialog, See PDFill Options. Now, there is a better way to add a highlight into PDF using PDF Comment's Highlight Tool.
Action: Add Link, Submit, JavaScript and more ...	See PDF Actions.
Transparency	The transparency of the text.
Blend Mode	Color Blend Mode for Text. Please save into a new PDF to see the blending effect.
PDF Layer	Select a PDF Layer name if it belongs to a PDF Layer. Make it empty if it doesn't belong to a PDF Layer. See details in PDF Layer.
Order	It will show on the Foreground or Background of the PDF document.
Set this field as default	If set, the new object will have the same properties as this one.

4. Screenshot:

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