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List-box background color

2007-10-30 11:42:04

docdownie

Registered: Jan 14 2007

Posts: 1

How do I remove the default list-box color from printing? It seems like a waste of toner, and esthetically unpleasing, to have that field print in gray with white text when everything else is black text on a white background.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro, Windows

2007-11-09 14:30:16

tedpadova

Registered: Dec 31 2005

Posts: 848

Are you wanting to have one color for the List Box when shown on screen and another color when the file is printed? If so you need to write a JavaScript where the print action is invoked on a button. There isn't a way to control changing List Box colors in the Print dialog box.

If the screen display and the printed document can have the same color for the List Box, open the List Box Properties and click the Appearance tab. Click the Fill Color swatch and choose None.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

2011-03-13 18:23:40

danimac

Registered: Mar 13 2011

Posts: 1

great idea. don't work

2011-05-04 12:47:22

MCavender

Registered: May 4 2011

Posts: 1

Try using a combo box instead. It doesn't print out gray.

2011-09-06 20:53:46

itworked

Registered: Sep 6 2011

Posts: 1

Thank you MCavender! It worked!