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• • December 15, 2015 at 2:13 pm #80223
    AaronA

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    Check boxes and radio buttons that I designed as squares, when exported as interactive PDF and then opened in Reader 11 or Acrobat X, show up as circles, highlighted in blue. When clicked they become their proper square appearance.

    I’ve traced this behavior to a preference in Reader and Acrobat:
    Forms/Highlight Color/Show border hover color for fields.

    When this preference is turned off, the buttons have their proper designed appearance.

    Unfortunately the preference defaults to selected.

    Anyone know a way around this? Obviously, I want my form to appear to the user the way it was designed.

  • December 15, 2015 at 4:48 pm #80227
    AaronA

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    Addendum: When clicked they go to proper square appearance, but only until I move the mouse away, at which point they have the default circular radio button appearance again.

    [On a side note, in case it helps someone: I encountered a bugaboo with check boxes not toggling off when clicked — ie, a checked box not getting UNchecked when clicked. Once checked, it was permanently that way. This turned out to be due to my having named the buttons with decimals in them, ala 1.a, 1.b, etc. Changing the decimals to dashes fixed that and now they behave normally…]

    Addendum 2: And it solved the appearance problem for the check boxes. They no longer look like radio buttons after the renaming, even with preference turned on. But the square radio buttons are still becoming circular, which I don’t want.

  • December 16, 2015 at 12:49 pm #80248
    Ariel Walden

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  • January 7, 2016 at 8:36 am #80596
    Mat?j K?íž

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    Reference to related discussion on Adobe Forums https://forums.adobe.com/message/5159589.

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