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December 11, 2024
Question

Form buttons are showing blank and fillable, but when posted online they show filled out

  • December 11, 2024
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I received a form to be posted on sharepoint. When I download and open, it looks fine like this:

But the moment, I post it on sharepoint and when opened, it shows like this:

Document was created by someone else on a Mac on InDesign.

We are stumped as we have not come across this before.

 

 

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Thom Parker
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 11, 2024

What application is displaying the form when it is opened from Sharepoint?

 

How the PDF looks and behaves is largely controlled by the application that displays it. Non-compliant PDF viewers do not handle form fields and scripts correctly. 

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
Participant
December 12, 2024

Thank you I figured this out by clicking on the button properties and selecting 'no colour'. Another strange mystery solved!