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Radio buttons displaying appearance when none specified

gwh
Registered: May 19 2008
Posts: 47

Hi everyone,

I'm using a whole lot of radio buttons on a form I'm creating with acrobat pro 9. I need the functionality of a radio button so that only 1 of a number of options can be chosen at any one time, but I want the radio button to look like a tick box. I created the background elements of the form in Indesign so each radio button already has a black stroked square. In Acrobat all I did was create the radio buttons on top of the squares already drawn in Indesign. In the radio button properties dialogue box I set the border and fill color to none and I have the button style set to check. When I preview though, Acrobat is still adding a grey bevelled border to the inside of my stroked square that I created in Indesign. I obviously want the check mark to appear when it's ticked but I don't want any appearance at all since I specified this elsewhere.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

I've also noticed that when I create a button and preview it, when clicked, Acrobat is putting a fine dotted line around the object even though no border has been specified. This also happens if I use an imported graphic as the button, ie. when I click it there's this fine dotted line.

Anyone know how to fix this also?

Appreciate any help.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.1.3, Macintosh
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You can edit the property of the Radio Button fields and change the "Button Style" on the "Options" tab to "Check".

Move off the field and the dotted line disappears and the dotted lines appear around the next field.

George Kaiser

gwh
Registered: May 19 2008
Posts: 47
Thanks for replying,

As mentioned in my original post, I already have the button style set to "check". Acrobat is still adding the grey bevelled border even though I've specified "none" for the border and fill color in the appearance tab. This hasn't solved the problem.

Any other suggestions?
a_bella@windows...
Registered: Aug 2 2010
Posts: 1
Hey guys,

I have been struggling with this problem for 2 days! And I finally cracked it :)

1. In the properties menu, you need to start with a border colour.
This activates the line thickness and line style option to the right.

2. Change the line thickness to thin, and the line style to solid.

3.Change the border colour back to 'no fill' and voila!

I think the default is what tricks ya. I assumed that because the thickness and style were deactivated that they didn't factor in at all, but it appears they do.

Hope this helps :)

Bella