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• • April 9, 2015 at 9:35 am #74519
    Graemezee

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    Hi Have Upgraded to Adobe Acrobat DC and very sad to find that many of the styling features I use in Indesign to to make interactive pdfs no longer work correctly

    I have tested existing interactive pdfs that function perfectly in Acrobat XI and Adobe acrobat Reader but open the same files in Acrobat DC and Acrobat DC Reader and most of the documents i have designed and produces over last few years have been renderer useless

    The Problem is a with form buttons and show and hide areas basically any transparency glow or drop shadow effect fail to display producing a pixelated mess
    A design feature i have utilised a lot is a semi transparent panel which contains text and graphics which displays on rollover of a button. because of the transparency in the panel the whole panel fails to display in any meaningful way Similarly with any effects which as glows drop shadow destroy the display of the whole button.

    Reverting back to a previous version Acrobat will not solve the problem as people upgrade the documents become redundant I assume i will have to design any new projects to this new reality what i will say to clients with newly delivered iBrochures or interactive pdfs i have yet to consider

    It is unbelievable that Adobe would unilaterally under mind this part of indesign without at least flagging this up so content creators could design appropriately

    I can only hope this is a problem with my setup only or it is one that adobe intend to fix appreciate any thoughts on the matter

  • April 9, 2015 at 8:38 pm #74539
    Caspian Ievers

    Member

    Good to know… I’ve been waiting for Adobe to sort out Acrobat for some time now (Acrobat 11 is just the pits to use — I’m constantly hunting for the tool that does the thing I’m trying to do and it’s always hiding somewhere unexpected, which in my mind is bad UI)
    I was hoping for an improvement in Acrobat 12, but as it look like DC is 12 I guess I better suck it up.

  • April 9, 2015 at 8:44 pm #74540
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I have heard so many bad things about Acrobat DC that I am only a little surprised, but I honestly have not tried it yet.

    Do all form fields fail, or just ones with effects?

  • April 10, 2015 at 1:54 am #74547
    Graemezee

    Member

    Only Form Fields with Effects applied either fx or transparency and mode i.e. multiply. What galls me most is, its the time producing testing and delivering projects often completed and paid for are now rendered redundant or useless with no warning. Its almost like all the browsers unilaterally loosing support for CSS3 overnight and without warning. May be not a good example as designers would create css in a way that it degrades for lesser browsers. Not something you have to think of over the years with acrobat

    Who’s responsibility is it to put it right who should pay for it…………

    It not the loss of features its just amount of work that has been ruined the only hope is that people in the business slowly take up the upgrade

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