I've created a Fillable form using prepare form in Acrobat Pro DC and used added text fields and it works well in the preview except that all of the text boxes are blue. I would like my users who are going to fill out the form to not see the blue text boxes; the text boxes should just look transparent (like nothing is there) until they put their cursor in the answer area.
Does anyone know how to edit/fix this? I'm not a proficient user of Adobe so I may be making newbie mistake!
Thank You for the information....Now if I do that for my settings on my computer will it show up as a transparent field when I send it out to others who have not change their settings?
The setting that you’re looking for is user specific. This means that you can change the preferences the way you want to see the form on your computer, but not on the user’s machine.
You may do so by going to Edit>Preferences>Forms Uncheck the option of Show Border Hover color for fields.
Unfortunately, you can only change the color of the form fields that will appear when the user clicks on it, but the Blue fields that appear are the default setting and can only be changed by the user and not the sender of the form.
The preferences are set for the application, this means it will be applied to all the documents opened in Acrobat with those preferences. However, you can toggle it if you want to see the blue color on fields on some documents. That's the only workaround.
I spend almost an hour figuring it out so here's the solution. None of thye solution on this page helped me im using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC heres to get rid of annoying blue boxes
Hi, on the contary. How do I get the blue boxes vs a transparent box that only turns blue when its hovered? I'd like the page to show the blue boxes upon opening.
What are these dark blue boxes that I haven't created and now appearing when I opened fillable forms in Adobe Acrobat. I haven't experienced this before.
Hello, While this did come, and then go away, it has appeared again and I cannot get rid of the blue boxes. I just want to use my mouse as I have in the past and not be required to tab through my whole document.
Also cannot get rid of blue boxes. When adding text into a fillable text box the box hides it when finished, shows back up when when clicking back into text box but shows a blank box when printing document.
Respectfully none of this has resolved not having the capability to remove the blue highlights over variable text fields in forms. I can only do this through my preferences, which is easy. But, then when we send the completed forms to our clients they still see the text fields highlighted in blue. There isn't a way for the client to not see these blue highlighted fields unless they also remove the highlights through their own preferences. This is not practical when you have a long list of clients to send to that may or may not be willing to make these extra steps to hide the boxes. Why can't the default simply be set to NOT see these highlighted blue boxes? Could this be done? Thank you.
You can embed a script in your file that will disable the Fields Highlighting whenever it is opened (using an Adobe viewer). However, it will also disable it for other files that are opened on that machine (since it's an app-setting, not a document-setting), so it's a good idea to at least notify the user of this change, or to reverse it when the file is closed.
This is awesome! Thank you so much. So this essentially disables the blue highlight field in Adobe preferences for anywone that opens the PDF. Then all they would need to do is check it back on in their preferences which we could send a screen shot on how to do this. This really great. I wish there was a way to have this only affect the document that you add the code to. This will have to work. I hope the marketer will agree to this. I really appreciate your quick response.
If you add the same code but with true instead of false under Set Document Actions - Document Will Close it will reverse it when your file is closed (even if it wasn't saved).
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