Disable highlighted blue background on edible form fields

[giladn55917758]

Hi,

Is there a way to disable the blue background on a fillable PDF form? It doesn't appear on Acrobat pro, but when I send it appears on Acrobat reader.

Thank you!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Form settings under Preferences. It's per program and per user. 

[giladn55917758]

Thank you.

Can you please elaborate on the form settings?

And if I disable it on my end, will users I'll send the file to might still experience that depends on their preferences?

[Amal.]

Hi there

hope you are doing well and am sorry for the trouble.

Please go to edit (Win), Adobe Acrobat (Mac) > preferences > forms > uncheck ’ show border hover colour for fields’ > click OK and reboot the application.

Thanks

Amal

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

No--it is up to each user to set their own preferences. 

[try67]

You can disable it by embedding a script into your file, but it will also be disabled for all other files the user opens afterwards, so it might be a good idea to inform them of that change.

The code that does it is this:

app.runtimeHighlight = false;

[giladn55917758]

Thank you try67

It worked great on my desktop but I see that it doesn't when I open it on Chrome for example, and also on my mobile (I use Acrobat reader on my phone..).

Is there a way to fix that?

Or maybe, is there a way to at least change the highlight color, for example light grey or white?

Thanks a lot.

[try67]

- No, it won't work in the mobile version of Reader, and is unlikely to work in the Chrome PDF plugin.

- You can change the highlight color using a script, yes, but again, it will affect all other files, too.

From personal experience I can tell you it's a very bad idea to do it without the user's consent.

To do it you can use this code (for example; read the documentation of the color object to learn how to define other colors):

app.runtimeHighlightColor = color.ltGray;