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I'm a new user so I could be making a simple error, but here goes:
I'm trying to make the text fields in a pdf form be rich text with the font autoresizing as needed, but these setting seem not to save when I do this on my new mac desktop. When I open the same file on my iPad, the field appears to have the rich text setting preserved and resizes text as necessary; this also isn't a problem on my work commuter (PC with windows)*. It's very weird; I change the option settings to allow rich text and uncheck line scrolling, then lock the changes, then try to input text and the settings appear not to have taken effect. When I reopen form editing, the old settings (multiple lines, scrolling) are checked again even though I locked it. Hopefully someone out there knows why this might be happening?
*When I email the iPad pdf file to myself and open on mac, the text seems to "autocorrect" the form field text back to multiple lines/scrolling, and looks terrible.

I suppose a possible solution is if there's a way to add the text form fields in Illustrator... or if there's a way to add an invisible marker (besides adding a rule line) that Acrobat will automatically read as a text field location?

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