Writer form field forced to UPPER case

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#1

OK my Google foo is defective.

I'm trying to build a PDF membership (501.c.3) form using LibreOffice Writer.

One of the fields should be upper case. Is there a form control that will convert entered text to upper case?

TIA for any help or suggestions.

Rod

#2

Hi Rod,

One of the fields should be upper case.  Is there a form control that
will convert entered text to upper case?

There is no form-field in LO which changes the input from lower case to
upper case.

Special for *.pdf-forms: The fields in *.pdf-forms will be textfields
without any special behaviour. Comboboxes, Listfields, Buttons and and
Checkboxes will also work.

Regards

Robert

#3

Hello,

Try the following:

* Select the form.
* Then right click -Character.
* Go to tab "Font effects".
* Inside that tab you have an "Effects" combobox. Choose "Upper
        case".
Then all text entered in the form will be in caps.

Regards,

João Jerónimo

Às 07:57 de 28/09/2019, Roderick A.
      Anderson escreveu:
OK my
      Google foo is defective.I'm trying to build a PDF membership (501.c.3) form using
      LibreOffice Writer.One of the fields should be upper case.  Is there a form control
      that will convert entered text to upper case?TIA for any help or suggestions.Rod

#4

Thanks João.

I think this is for a Base Form. I'm doing this using Writer.

Further research is in my future.

Rod

#5

You mean other than Format/Text/Uppercase?

Regards,

#6

Hi Maurice,

There is no form-field in LO which changes the input from lower case to
upper case

  You mean other than Format/Text/Uppercase?

Look at a form-field. Right click on the field > Control properties >
Font. There is one button "Features". No possibility to set the whole
content to uppercase. Only to set "Lowercase to Small Capitals".

This is the behaviour in Writer- and Base-forms.

If you export forms to a *.pdf-form most of this "features" won't be
exported. Also Scribus, which would export more features to a
*.pdf-form, doesn't give a possibility to set the content ot uppercase.

Format > Text > UPPERCASE will change the input of text in Writer, not
in a formfield.

Regards

Robert

#7

As others have said, there is no default control that allows you to do
this in Writer and have it function in an exported PDF form.

One suggestion might be to see whether you can embed a JS script in your
PDF form for that control that does this for you, see for example, this
thread :

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/how-make-form-field-caps-q38840.aspx

I honestly don't know whether this is possible from within Writer when
you create and export the form to FPDF.

Alex

#8

Hi Alex,

One suggestion might be to see whether you can embed a JS script in your
PDF form for that control that does this for you, see for example, this
thread :

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/how-make-form-field-caps-q38840.aspx

I honestly don't know whether this is possible from within Writer when
you create and export the form to FPDF.

Writer doesn't but Scribus includes Javascript for a form.

Robert