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JavaScript for turning off highlighting

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- [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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