{"id":1614,"date":"2022-05-27T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2022-07-10T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T15:43:09","slug":"my-project-to-design-fillable-genealogy-pdfs-with-cursive-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/2022\/05\/27\/my-project-to-design-fillable-genealogy-pdfs-with-cursive-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"My project to design fillable genealogy PDFs with cursive fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on an exciting project related to one of the most-requested features for EasyGenie fillable PDFs: cursive fonts.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who have purchased\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/easygenie.org\/collections\/pdfs\">EasyGenie\u00a0fillable PDFs<\/a>\u00a0in the past know that the standard Helvetica font that appears when you type is easy to read and print. Here&#8217;s an example:<a href=\"https:\/\/easygenie.org\/collections\/pdfs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1615\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2022\/05\/PDF-fillable-FILLED-IN-SAMPLE-jennifer-burnham-800.jpg\" alt=\"fillable genealogy PDF helvetica font\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2022\/05\/PDF-fillable-FILLED-IN-SAMPLE-jennifer-burnham-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2022\/05\/PDF-fillable-FILLED-IN-SAMPLE-jennifer-burnham-800-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2022\/05\/PDF-fillable-FILLED-IN-SAMPLE-jennifer-burnham-800-768x597.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>But some customers asked for something that looks nicer.\u00a0Owing to limitations of the PDF file format and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/acrobat\/how-to\/create-fillable-pdf-forms-creator.html\">Adobe software used to design fillable PDFs<\/a>, it&#8217;s not possible for customers to change the font on their own, like you can do in Microsoft Word or Google Docs.<\/p>\n<p>Further, there are design considerations for creating PDFs with special fonts, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Embedding new fonts leads to larger download sizes<\/li>\n<li>Incompatibility with non-Adobe applications<\/li>\n<li>Wider or taller characters can get cut off or limit the amount of typed input<\/li>\n<li>Printing issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ian is working through these issues now, including evaluating new cursive and calligraphy fonts and printing tests. Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1616\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2022\/05\/pdf-fillable-cursive-font-sample.jpg\" alt=\"fillable genealogy PDF cursive\" width=\"800\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2022\/05\/pdf-fillable-cursive-font-sample.jpg 800w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2022\/05\/pdf-fillable-cursive-font-sample-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2022\/05\/pdf-fillable-cursive-font-sample-768x367.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sample above uses Monotype Corsiva in the large-print four-generation fillable pedigree chart.\u00a0We hope to have something that customers can download in July <a href=\"https:\/\/easygenie.org\/collections\/pdfs\">from the EasyGenie genealogy PDF page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on an exciting project related to one of the most-requested features for EasyGenie fillable PDFs: cursive fonts. Customers who have purchased\u00a0EasyGenie\u00a0fillable PDFs\u00a0in the past know that the standard Helvetica font that appears when you type is easy to read and print. Here&#8217;s an example:But some customers asked for something that looks nicer.\u00a0Owing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,85172],"tags":[882,85172],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-genealogy","tag-design","tag-genealogy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}