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May 21, 2020
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Make a PDF form open in a specific view

  • May 21, 2020
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I have created an Adobe Acrobat PDF form which has lots of fields to complete. When I open it on my laptop, it all looks great but when someone else opens it, they see a border hover color for fillable fields which makes all the boxes look blue.

I know you can change this in Edit > Preferences > Forms > Highlight Color, but is there a way (perhaps with Javascript?) to get the PDF to open in this view so that no matter what the individual’s PDFs settings are, it will display correctly without the colour?

I am a complete Javascript novice so if this is needed, providing the code would be so gratefully appreciated.

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Correct answer BarlaeDC

Hi,

If you create document Javascript to run this code it should switch it off ( note: it does change the users preferences)

if (app.runtimeHighlight) {
app.runtimeHighlight = false;
}

Regards

Malcolm

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BarlaeDC
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BarlaeDCCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 21, 2020

Hi,

If you create document Javascript to run this code it should switch it off ( note: it does change the users preferences)

if (app.runtimeHighlight) {
app.runtimeHighlight = false;
}

Regards

Malcolm

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biba.doaAuthor
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May 21, 2020

Thanks for getting back so quickly. Sorry for probably a really simple question but where would I need to enter that code?

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biba.doaAuthor
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May 23, 2020

Worked out where to put it and it works! Amazing! For anyone else that stumbles upon this, put it in Tools > JavaScript > Document JavaScripts

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