Re: Form field text shifting after setField?

> kylealger wrote:
>
>>Chris,
>>
>>I am having the same issue as you describe. I've trying to figure out what
>>exactly the underlying issue is and have had no luck. I am using the
>>setFields method, the same as you, and see that the text does seem to
>>shift
>>up or down with no consistency that I can see for direction.  Have you
>>been
>>able to figure a way around this?
>>
> iText generates a default appearance for a textfield.
> When you edit the text field, Adobe Reader creates an appearance.
> The main problem is that Adobe Reader wasn't very consistent in
> the way such an appearance is visualized: it differs from version to
> version.
> iText can't predict what version of Adobe Reader the end-user will be
> using,
> so the default appearance offered by iText is an 'educated guess'.
> For some versions of Adobe Reader ther will be little or no difference;
> for others you will experience that 'shifting behavior'.