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October 12, 2021
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Issue with fillable text-box colours

  • October 12, 2021
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So the problem (see picture):

 

I added fillable text boxes, so my clients can fill these area's themselve when they open the .pdf. As you can see on the right example, the boxes appear filled with a light grey colour. I think its very ugly, so i want the boxes to be transparant (just the colour of the boxes, not the text obviously). 

So the left example is what i want the file to look like. 

What i tried:

- Had contact with employes, but it looks like they didnt understand the issue.

- Whent to preverences -> forms -> uncheck ''border hover color for fields'' -> does work in acrobat, but doesnt change anything on the actual pdf, its just the previeuw in acrobat that changes. 

- Clicked on -> more -> unchecked ''highlight existing fields''. -> same problem the one above, only changes the previeuw in acrobat, but doesnt change anything in the actual .pdf. (when openen in browser or anywhere else outside of acrobat). 

 

Anyone has a solution for this? 

 

Examples:

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Nesa Nurani
Community Expert
October 12, 2021

You can make fields 'readonly', then use scripts to make them fillable on focus and again make them readonly on blur.

For On focus;

event.target.readonly = false;

On Blur:

event.target.readonly = true;

 

 

Amal.
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 12, 2021

Hi Sander Nijs

 

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As described you wanted the text field to show no fill color

 

Please open the PDF form and go to Tools > prepare form (This will bring the form in the editing mode), then double click on the text field to open text field properties and under the tab 'Appearance' set the fill color to no color.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope it will help

 

Regards

Amal

New Participant
November 1, 2021

I did this, but didnt help. It's still grey.

try67
Community Expert
November 1, 2021

Disable the Fields Highlighting option in the application.