Add possibility to adjust the font size for PDF form filling

[Andy Sardina]

Aha!! If you are already working on it, please just go ahead!

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 12:09 PM Pratham Gandhi <ppg.1382 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Andy,
> I am already working on this. Will try to raise an MR for this by this or
> next weekend. If you'd still like to take this up, I can share my progress
> with you.
> The same issue exists with combo box, list box, etc. Not sure, but some
> change could be required on poppler end as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Pratham
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul, 2024, 1:05 pm Andy Sardina, <andysardina22 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Cool!
>>
>> I’ll work on a PR and avoid sharing pointers between the two levels.
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 1:11 AM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>>> El dimarts, 23 de juliol del 2024, a les 12:46:59 (CEST), Andy Sardina
>>> va
>>> escriure:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> >    I have used Okular recently to fill a PDF form and I haven't found
>>> a way
>>> > (in the UI) to adjust the font size for text fields. This is a problem
>>> > because for some text fields, specially the ones where one has to
>>> write an
>>> > address, even if the text fits perfectly in the Okular::FormLineEdit,
>>> when
>>> > it gets rendered, the text could be cut.
>>> >
>>> >  For example:
>>> >
>>> > [image: form-show.png]
>>> >
>>> > but when the form is hidden:
>>> >
>>> > [image: form-hidden.png]
>>> >
>>> > The problem seems to be that the font (and font size) for the
>>> > Okular::FormLineEdit is different from the one in the Default
>>> Appearance
>>> > (DA) in the PDF.
>>> >
>>> > My proposal is to take advantage of the method
>>> > Poppler::FormFieldText::setTextFontSize to adjust the font size in
>>> > the PopplerFormFieldText (Poppler Generator).
>>> >
>>> > Ideally, Poppler::FormFieldText could have a member function that
>>> returns a
>>> > pointer (to avoid duplicating the same object if many text files share
>>> the
>>> > same font) to
>>> > the font defined in the DA (implies changes in Poppler itself). This
>>> font
>>> > can then be used on the constructor of Okular::FormLineEdit to "sync"
>>> both
>>> > fonts.
>>> >
>>> > What do you think? Is this a change that could be accepted?
>>>
>>> Setting the font & font size is possibly a valid feature, we do that
>>> already
>>> for annotations so i don't see why we would not do it for Forms.
>>>
>>> What you suggest of sharing pointers between poppler and okular, that's
>>> possibly a bad idea.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   Albert
>>>
>>>
>>>
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