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JavaScript for turning off highlighting - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Interactive PDFs
JavaScript for turning off highlighting
- [Instructor] In an earlier chapter I talked about how frustrating it is to create custom form fields, like check boxes and radio buttons. And then have them disappear in Acrobat. And the problem is that Acrobat usually covers up all the form fields with a light blue highlighting. For example, here in the interactive brochure PDF from the exercise files folder, I'm going to jump to page nine. You can see that all my text fields and radio buttons and check boxes all have this light blue, or purple highlighting over them. And I know Acrobat is just trying to be helpful, by showing people where the form fields are, so that they can use them, but as a designer, I don't want Acrobat to cover up my design. It just gets in the way. There is however, a solution. Acrobat has a preference to hide the highlights. Now, you could try to explain to everyone who opens your form how to open the preferences dialog box and find the right pane, and then turn off that highlighting preference, but you…
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Hiding and showing content with buttons5m 11s
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Adding finishing touches in Acrobat2m 51s
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JavaScript for turning off highlighting4m 7s
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Swapping out pages to avoid extra work4m 28s
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Full-screen page transitions4m 24s
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Duplicate buttons for smaller file size3m 19s
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Working with animations and Flash5m 25s
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