How to remove overlay on fillable PDF

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November 12, 2020
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This is driving me crazy. Does anyone know how to remove these grey boxes? I made this fillable PDF and it shows these grey boxes in Chrome but not in Adobe. Can I make it so they do not show in Chrome? Also, it doesn't show when you are clicked on it see the picture.

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Thom Parker

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Also, you really aught to be asking this question on the Chrome forum. This is the Adobe forums, which have literally nothing to do with Chrome.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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CPPCDAuthor

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Well, it was made in Adobe so really could have been either program doing it that is why I asked. Telling them to not use chrome, unfortunately, is not an option for this and no Chrome doesn't read the code. I tried that. Thanks anyway. I'll check a chrome form.

Thom Parker

Community Expert

The simple answer is, Don't Use Chrome to fill forms.

Acrobat has a setting for highlighing fillable form fields. It looks like Chrome is doing the same thing. In Acrobat this field highlighting is a user preference, but can also be removed by putting this line of code in a document script.

app.runtimeHighlight = false;

I seriously doubt Chrome respects this setting, but it's worth a try. But again, the real solution is to tell your users to never, ever, use the Chrome PDF viewer to fill forms.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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