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Background color of text fields

nemo
Registered: Jan 6 2009
Posts: 4
Answered

I would like to know where the background color property is for text fields. All the fields, those added from the Object palette and those converted from a Word document look blue in Acrobat Reader. When I print them out though, the added fields print with a white background, the converted with a grey. The grey makes it harder to read.

Where can one change the background property? Is there a place to set the defaults for fields?

Thanks for any help you may give.

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi nemo,

In Designer select the text field, then go to the Object tab, under the Field tab there is an "Appearance" option. Choose Custom from the drop-down. A dialog labeled "Custom Appearance" will popup- in that you will see at the bottom a section "Background Fill" where if you choose the Style solid you can then select the paintbucket icon to the right and choose a fill color for the field.
I don't think you can make this the defualt for text fields but you could add a text field with those custom properties to your Object Library and add new text fields from the Library.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
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sgrossm
Registered: Mar 3 2009
Posts: 5
How can I change the background color to transparent if I'm using Acrobat 9 standard? I have the fill color for all of my text fields set to "no color", but when you look at the PDF in Reader there is a light blue box where the text field is. When I try making a text field invisible, you can't edit it.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Thanks.
radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
To variation of JavaScript with the same effect.

TextField.fillColor = "T";
or
TextField.fillColor = color.transparent;

radzmar
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Documents you need:
LiveCycle Designer ES2 Docs