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April 30, 2025
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Fillable fields are not displaying

  • April 30, 2025
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I'm on Acrobat PRO

I manage 100s of fillable fields. After a recent update, when I open a form with fillable fields, they're no longer marked. You just have to know where they're at. I can click Prepare a Form and all my fields are viewable to edit. I can code one box to put a border around it and then when I exit Prepare a Form, that box then displays. It is not feasible to go back and edit all of these fields individually across all our forms. 

 

If I open in Acrobat in Chrome, all the fields are viewable. Everything I've found as a suggestion to click/view/turn on is on a path from I guess an old version, because those selection options are not there. Any ideas? I labeled the attached images.

 

 

 

 

Correct answer PDF Automation Station

Your field highlighting is turned off:

 

https://pdfautomationstation.substack.com/p/form-field-color-issues

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PDF Automation Station
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Community Expert
April 30, 2025
Participant
April 30, 2025

THANK YOU.

 

I have to do a training video with all our staff now to show them how to turn this back on. About half us lost the feature and the other half kept it!

try67
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Community Expert
April 30, 2025

You can embed a script in your file(s) that will turn it on automatically when the file is opened. Just be aware this is an app-setting, not a doc-setting, so it will affect all other files the user opens, as well.

The code to do it is very simple:

app.runtimeHighlight = true;

Place it under a new item (you can call it "load", for example) via JavaScripts - Document JavaScripts, save your file, and you're done!