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jackb24565462
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February 2, 2017
Question

Can I add style options for checkboxes?

  • February 2, 2017
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I would like a Y or N to appear instead of a check/cross, etc.

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George_Johnson
Inspiring
February 2, 2017

Not in Acrobat, but you can create custom appearances in InDesign. The main problem is such appearances won't show up if field highlighting is enabled in Reader/Acrobat.

Another option is to use a button to create a fake check box and use JavaScript to set the button icon. I can post a sample if you're interested.

jackb24565462
jackb24565462Author
Participant
February 2, 2017

Yes, that would be great. Thanks in advance.

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George_Johnson
Inspiring
February 2, 2017

Here are links to two different samples:

http://acroscript.net/pdf/demos/button_checkbox.pdf

http://acroscript.net/pdf/demos/multistate_4.pdf

They both rely on JavaScript in various places (including document-level JavaScripts), so you'll have to study them a bit to see how they work. This approach won't work in most non-Adobe PDF viewers, so Reader or Acrobat on Windows/Mac should be used.

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