[PDFBOX-4568] Field text poorly vertically aligned

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.15
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.21, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: AcroForm
• External issue URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56464810/how-to-vertically-align-text-of-pdtextfield-in-pdfbox
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 11/Jun/19 16:30
• Updated: 21/Aug/20 04:54
• Resolved: 24/Jun/20 10:20

Description

doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm().getField("err_desc").setValue("pqgy");

The content is not aligned very well, so the lower parts of the glyphs can't be seen.

PDFBox content:

/Tx BMC
  q
    1 1 281.1 12.2 re
    W
    n
    BT
      /F1 10 Tf
      /DeviceRGB cs
      0 0 0 sc
      2 1.97 Td
      (pqgy) Tj
    ET
  Q
EMC

Adobe content:

/Tx BMC
  BT
    0 0 0 rg
    /F1 10 Tf
    0 g
    2 2.985 Td
    (pqgy) Tj
  ET
EMC

Issue Links

• duplicates: PDFBOX-3812 Support auto size font for multiline PDTextField
• is related to: PDFBOX-4594 Multiline field text with auto font sizing should be size adjusted
• links to: Fill textfield with pdfbox cause an offset