Adobe Acrobat Pro :: Disappearing radio button
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Pro DC is declining to show a radio button in a form-fillable PDF I have built. See image below. Preview for the Mac is much better as it at least shows the button and makes it clickable as expected. But the Adobe software will not show the box and will not allow me to edit it. I can see the item in the field list.
This file was laid out completely in Pro DC. Every field and button, even the text were laid out in this excruciating tool to prevent any functionality issues. All in vain.
Additionally, Pro crashes a high percentage of the times I click "Prepare Forms."
Is there a workaround to enable Adobe Acrobat Pro able to successfully read a PDF?
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Can you post the file?
Use the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
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File attached.
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Never, never, never open a PDF form with Preview, aka "the PDF killer".
You should read these articles:
http://khkonsulting.com/2013/06/preview-app-killer-of-pdf-files/
http://duff-johnson.com/2014/04/07/apples-preview-still-not-safe-for-work/
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I've only used Preview to view the PDF (a copy, at that) after creation, never to edit or to save the file. I wanted to be certain not to introduce any compatibility issues. It is weird that Acrobat keeps destroying my work, but Preview is able to extract it and display it correctly. Somewhere in the file is the information, Acrobat simply won't show it.
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"I've only used Preview to view the PDF (a copy, at that) after creation, never to edit or to save the file."
Phew! 😉
I guess that you are talking about highlighting, which is not the same thing that stroke/fill colors of fields.
In Acrobat you will find it here: