Inputed text on form invisible unless field entered.

this may not be the case but I have seen that happen when there are textfields that are outside the page

by outside I mean I had to zoom way back and there they were sitting on the pasteboard

somehow acrobat tries to reconcile letting you fill them in while staying focused on the actual document

No. I thought that too at first, but verified that there are not any fields outside the artboard area.

One thing that I do notice about the file is that the 26 sets of radio buttons take several seconds to "outline" while editing the fields in "edit" mode. Any change to any field causes Acrobat to re-outline each radio button, so editing/moving fields is a real pain for a one-page simple form.

lnail

I've just come upon a similar problem -- but it's only happening for one user with a form that's been in use by multiple users for nearly a year.

We're just now checking to find out what Acrobat version she used to fill in the form, but the weird thing is that the behavior is inconsistent...the entered text appears correctly when I open the form in 9 Pro, but when another person opens it in 8 Pro, the text doesn't appear unless she clicks in each form field.

And the text remains visible even after she clicks in another field, so it's not precisely a focus issue.

It's a 14-page form with lots of checkboxes and calculated fields, but no radio buttons. The form was originally created in 8 Pro, but it was finalized during the month we had a trial version of 9 Pro Extended. We're currently working in 9 Pro.

I'm thinking it's got something to do with the user's installation of Acrobat, but the fact that it behaves differently on two machines here seems a little odd.

So I'm curious if you've gotten any more information about it at your end? Thanks!

Caroline

I just ran into this as well. Turns out, in the affected PDFs, there was a field "fill color" set, which overlays the text. (I didn't set a fill color.) Removing that, reveals the typed in text.

In the same problem forms, all textareas somehow got re-set to "scroll long text," something I had unchecked in my final form design.

So, something's wrong with either Acrobat or Reader.

But wait! There's more. In these corrupt forms that are being returned (there are only a few out of several dozen), it's also possible to type letters into fields I set as number only, letters or anything into date fields, etc.

The form was built with Acrobat 9 Pro.

Same problem here recently. Filled form in Acrobat 8, 'SOMETIMES' the filled text data is invisible in Acrobat 6 or Acrobat 9.

I too am having difficulty. Whew! I thought it was just me. I've created a form and the "Date" field keeps disappearing when tabbed to the next field. When I put the cursor on the field it re-appears. It just started doing this yesterday after I e-mailed the form to another co-worker to "proof" for me. He brought that to my attention. Is there a solution for this yet?
Thank you in advance.

What I have found is when a user opens the AcroForm with Mac OS's Preview app, makes any changes to the fields (enter data), and then saves the file, that opening it later with Acrobat - whether Reader, Standard, or Pro - those same edited fields will display as blank until they are clicked within, showing the selected fields' contents. However, the instance that you deselect that field the data "hides" again.

The only fix is to "edit" the form fields in question by either changing its font/size, color, bkgd color, etc... Once "edited" and you return to the "Preview" mode, the fields in question are now visible.

HTH

lnail

See [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?pid=63567]Inviisible data in form fields[/url], that discusses this at length and has a link to a fix, [url=http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/script_to_fix_mac_osx_previewa.php]Script to Fix Mac OSX Preview.app Form Fill and Save[/url] by By Joel Geraci.