Document Template Generator - Using Text Area Fields with Rich Text

[kpcollier]

I'm trying to create a PDF template with the Templates feature. Two fields that I am including in this PDF are Text Area datatypes. These fields are updated by users via Rich Text Editor, so there are various line breaks, quotation marks, etc. 

I am able to map the text area fields, however when the PDF is generated, it isn't including the rich text formatting. Instead, it is showing &quot for quotation marks and <br> for the line breaks.

I have made sure that my fillable PDF has 'Allow Rich Text Formatting' enabled. But, it doesn't seem to make a difference with that option on or off. 

Any ideas?

[Wikiwi]

As a workaround, I think you can just use a normal text area to accept inputs. However, that will only allow your user to use "line break" by pressing the enter key.

PDF output:

[kpcollier]

Thanks @Wikiwi, I guess this will have to do for now. 

[Wikiwi]

@kpcollier you might want to look into this solution

 

[Wikiwi]

Also to add on this the &quot; in your output is the entity name for quotation marks. to replace them with actual qoutation marks you can either create a trigger that will replace a string to another string just like on this post or add a new .replace() function on this post.

I found a list of entity name and their actual value which may be helpful to some: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp#:~:text=Some Useful HTML Character Entities