Version: 0.9.2 (using KDE 4.3.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages When I have a pdf document that involves a lot of tables I would like to fill them using the annotation tool rather than print it out and fill the fields by hand and scan it in again. But this is hard to do if one does not see the text IN the document while typing. One only sees it in the yellow pad and it only appears in the document once the annotation has been made. And then it may already be that the font is too big or the field to small, the linebreaks are not correctly aligned, etc. I will provide an attachement for better insight.
Created attachment 38113 [details] how the annotation tool could be used to fill in forms you see how hard it is to get the text correctly placed without realtime preview while writing the annotation.
I do not think so. You should create one annotation per table cell instead.
(In reply to comment #0) > But this is hard to do if one does not see the text IN the document while > typing. One only sees it in the yellow pad and it only appears in the > document once the annotation has been made. Probably it wasn't like this in 0.9 when the bug was opened; in 0.15 (and some earlier versions too), you can see the text in real time as you type in the yellow pad (just to be clear: I'm referring to the popup textbox that is shown if you doubleclick on the annotation, not the textbox dialog you get at creation immediately after you drag the annotation box). > And then it may already be that the font is too big or the field to small, About the font, you can set its size from the annotation properties. About resizing the annotation, this is still an open issue (bug 177778), but in your case you can just initially create an empty annotation as big as the whole table (or cell, as Christopher suggested) and then start to fill it, no? I'm closing the bug because it seems to be fixed now, please reopen it if I'm missing something.