I am using LiveCycle Designer 8.0 in combination with Acrobat 8 Professional. I having been bringing in forms previously created in Acrobat, modifying them and saving them as Acrobat 8 Dynamic XML forms. Many of them have check boxes in the original form that really ought to be radio buttons since the choices are exclusive, so I have been changing them to radio buttons and adding them to exclusion groups.
I am experiencing an intermittant issue with the converted radio buttons. A black mark appears to the left of some (but not all) radio buttons when I go to preview mode. They are still there if I close the form in LiveCycle and open them up in Acrobat. They also appear on the hardcopy when I print the form from Acrobat. For the radio buttons that the marks appear near, the marks always appear. For the ones that don't, the marks never appear. I have looked at all the settings in the Object palette to see if I'm doing anything different and they seem to match. One thing I have noticed is that for the radio buttons with marks, I will see a yellow I bar to the left of them when in Design View in LiveCycle. I cannot select the I bar to delete/modify it.
Has anyone else seen this issue? Were you able to fix it and if so, how?
I actually figured it out on my own. The "marks" I was seeing were actually the text from captions. It turns out that every object starts out with a caption that normally can be edited/deleted. For whatever reason, radio buttons have the default caption but it cannot be edited or deleted. I think this must be an oversight on Adobe's part -- hopefully they'll fix it in the next version. For now, what I do is start the radio button off as a check box, delete the caption for the check box, then change it to a radio button. The caption stays gone. No more "black marks."
Cherie Hanechak