how to disable existing fields in free Acrobat DC

[vincentf76475279]

Hi !

Before, I'm sorry for my English level ...

I built a form with acrobat pro XI. In my company, the people use Acrobat DC.

When they open this form in DC, it's impossible to disable existing fields.

The cross, which allow us to disable it, don't appear on the top of form.

Thank you,

Bye,

Vincent

[gkaiseril]

Please clarify what you men by "disable"?

If one turns off JavaScript then the field calculations will be disabled.

If you mean the green/blue message bar. then that is a change due to the upgrade to a new major version.

[Tariq Dar]

Hi Vincent,

I am not sure what you mean by disabling existing fields. Is this a form? What all fields you have on the form and why you need to disable those fields?

Also, in the meantime please visit this tutorial: https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-to-set-form-fields-to-read-only it defines how to turn the fields "read-only."

Let us know if this helps.

-Tariq Dar.

[vincentf76475279]

Hi Tariq and gkaiseril,

Thank you for your help.

For your idea "read-only", it's not possible in my situation because the fields must be used.

To illustrate my question, look the next picture. It's the same document.

The first open in Acrobat Reader XI. The second, in Acrobat Reader DC.

You look the difference, in DC I have blue rectangles which show us where are the fields.

I want delete it. You think it's possible in Free Acrobat DC ?

Thank you

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

Hi.

Go to : Preferences : Forms : Highlight Color

And untick the "Show border…" option.

[vincentf76475279]

Oh great, it was so easy ! Thank you very much JR_Boulay

And thank at others helpers.

Bye

[Tariq Dar]

Hi Vincent,

In addition to what JR_Boulay said, that is clearly a solution to this issue you mentioned but only on your machine.

I would like to mention the fields will still be there and are fillable. In order to remove these fields, you need to open the file in Acrobat and choose prepare form mode under Tools and remove fields at these spots.

-Tariq Dar.