Hi Craig, It has been 20 years since I generated Acrobat Forms. I did it with Postscript and Distiller (or what is now Ghostscript).
Two thoughts. (1) Try dev@openoffice where the developer of the pdf feature might be hanging out - IIRC. (2) Try dev@pdfbox where someone may know how to help you find this at the “cos” level. You might need the pdf reference manual. Also there is no guarantee that all PDF viewers fully implement every attribute in the Forms / Ecmascript. (Or contact me offline tomorrow and we’ll see if I can find out what’s up.) Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 15, 2018, at 8:26 PM, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Martin, > >> On Mar 15, 2018, at 8:18 PM, Martin Groenescheij <mar...@groenescheij.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 16/03/18 2:05 AM, Craig Russell wrote: >>> Here is a link to a different document with the same issue. >>> >>> http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.pdf >>> >>> When opening the document with Safari, Preview, Firefox, or Chrome, the >>> cursor is not positioned in any of the input fields. With Safari, when >>> clicking inside a field, there is a regular text word highlighted in blue. >>> With Preview, no highlighting. With Chrome, no highlighting. With Firefox, >>> no highlighting. >>> >>> Can anyone give me the right terminology for the highlighted blue box >>> associated with the input fields? Is this just a Safari feature? >> >> Both documents works fine on my Windows PC using Acrobat Reader and Foxit PDF >> It even works fine on my iPad using Acrobat and Foxit Mobile. > > Yes, the documents "work". I'm looking for the ability to > > 1. Have the cursor positioned in the first entry field when opening the > document > > 2. Have control over the word or phrase in the document that is highlighted > when the cursor is in a specific field. > > Thanks, > > Craig > >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Craig >>> >>>> On Mar 14, 2018, at 4:34 PM, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm using Writer to create PDF forms and I'm having some trouble with the >>>> text boxes. >>>> >>>> You can see here the document I'm working on [1] and [2] >>>> >>>> 1. I open the pdf document in Apple Safari. When the cursor is in the name >>>> form field, the word "emeritus" is highlighted in blue. I'd like for the >>>> word "name" to be highlighted. >>>> >>>> When the user tabs out of the name field to the id field, the text >>>> "emeritus" is still in blue. I'd like the text "id" to be highlighted in >>>> blue instead. >>>> >>>> I have not been able to find anything in the form control box that allows >>>> me to change this. How can I do this? (I could not find any answers in >>>> online forums, perhaps because I'm using the wrong terminology) >>>> >>>> 2. How can I automatically position the cursor in the name field when the >>>> document is opened? >>>> >>>> 3. The behavior is different if I open the document in Apple Preview. Is >>>> it possible to have the same behavior regardless of which tool opens the >>>> document? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Craig >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> <emeritus-request.odt> >>>> >>>> [2] >>>> >>>> <emeritus-request.pdf> >>>> Craig L Russell >>>> c...@apache.org >>>> >>> Craig L Russell >>> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation >>> c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > Craig L Russell > Secretary, Apache Software Foundation > c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
