Ho to create Yes/No transparent circle fields in Acrobat Forms

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I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 on a windows machine.   I have a fillable form that has a "yes" box and a "no" box. I need to be able click on the "yes" or "no" and place a transparent circle or box around the the word. I cannot change the form as it is a scanned PDF that I did not design.  I've tried radio buttons, check boxes, stamps. I've tried like outlines, text color, etc.. but nothing seems to work. I can get a circle to cover up the words but not a transparent one. I am a basic user and cannot write java script or anything like that. Surely there is a simple way of adding this field to a form

try67 · Accepted Answer

Why would there be? The fact that you can do it on a paper doesn't mean there's a good reason to do it in a digital document.

You can use two buttons, one with an image of the text circled and one with the image of just the text and show/hide them as the other one is clicked, but that is not the best solution as the visibility of the button is not an actual value, in case you want to export the form data later on.

Another option is to use an annotation around the text, but that too will require a script to create/delete it.

In short, just put a drop-down field on top of the texts with those two options and let the user select them there.

catgrace · Answer

You can create a dropdown menu with the letter O in large font spaced to circle the words you want. One dropdown choice spaced to encircle yes, and the other spaced to encircle no. I wish the radio buttons featured a circle that you could resize to fit around your word, but this method works for me for the time being.

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