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PDFill PDF Filler :
Insert Multiple Line Text Tool (PDF Typewriter) (See Example PDF and Example PDFill Project File  )

You can use this tool to type a styled multiple text string into PDF document anywhere. You can add styled border, whiteout (fill color or background), highlight, and PDF Action (URL Link, JavaScript, Page Navigation and more) into this text box.

1. Create a Multiple Line Text:

Here are the steps to create:

• Choose Menu Insert > Select Multiple Line Text, or check this button item  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. See Here:

• To Align the objects, Format 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 Size	The size of the Font
Font Color	The color of the text.
Rotate	The text direction inside the box: 0 is available so far. To get rotated text, use PDF Comment's FREE Text Box.
UnderLine	a single line along the bottom of text
StrikeThrough	A line in the middle of the text
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
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 used to cover the original text and add a new text.
Highlight	A transparent color (yellow) to highlight an area with text or image. Now, there is a better way to add a highlight into PDF using PDF Commenting Text Box.
Action: Add Link, Submit, JavaScript and more ...	See PDF Actions
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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