Underline Appearance Text Boxes not showing up in PDF

[Roar]

I have a PDF that I imported into LiveCycle. In the process of putting
my text fields into the document I changed them to be Appearance
Underline. When I preview in PDF they don't show the underline. If I
make them any other appearance like the Sunken Box or Solid Box they
show up just fine. I've tried making the boxes bigger, smaller and
looked around for some setting I was missing like line width but I
didn't see anything like that.

Anybody have a clue as to why this is happening?

Thanks!

[Duane Nickull]

Send us your doc – we can take alook.

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[Roar]

It doesn't really appear to be any one document it happens in any
imported PDF. For example I have a word document, I import it into a
PDF, then hit "Forms" which opens up LiveCycle. I see a lot of "Can't
do 'X' because of PDF Artwork" like the line object and some other
things so maybe this is related. It's just that, that stuff is
typically grayed out when I can't do it. While this lets me place all
the text boxes all I want and set them to underline appearance but in
preview and just opened in Acrobat they look like they have the None
Appearance.

If during the process of PDF importing into LiveCycle I choose to use
a Flowable Layout instead it opens up and it doesn't include the
stationary artwork but I get all the text so I can't use Flowable to
solve this since that stationary is pretty much mandatory.

On Jul 31, 9:14 pm, Duane Nickull <dnick...@adobe.com> wrote:
> Send us your doc ­ we can take alook.
>

[fred.pantalone]

I think you have two options:

-inspect the XML source of the field and try and locate the faulty
content that is causing this behaviour;
-manually delete the troublesome fields and add new ones in their
place.

!!! un-solicited advice: !!!
Personally, I never use the import feature because it never results in
a quality form design. I typically take an image of the source form
(i.e a jpeg) and place it on the master page and then design the form
on top of that. By "quality form design" I mean well laid out subforms
which are intuitively named and fields that are also intuitively
named. The ease of maintenance provided by a properly (manually)
created form far outweighs the time you save by using the import
feature.
!!! end of un-solicited advice. !!!

Fred

[Duane Nickull]

I’m with Fred on this.  There are just too many combinations of O/S, Office and LC/PDF to work through.  I never use the import either.

D

[Christy]

This problem was haunting me too. In my case, I copied fields from a
form I made with an overlay to a blank one. Fred Pantalone's post
below was right on. I checked through the XML Source and found the
problem.

This happens with imported fields or fields copied from an older
document to a new one; the coding doesn't import correctly.

You need to view the XML code for the field and manually change the
code.

Open the form in LiveCycle Designer
Click on the field you are having the problem with, then click on
View, XML Source. The XLM pane will open and the cursor will be
positioned at the beginning of the code for the field you selected.
Look for code that says:

<border hand="right">

and change it to:

<border>

Voila' problem solved. Unfortunatley, you will have to scroll through
the code and do this for each field.

or as Fred mentioned, the alternative is to delete the field and
create a new one.

On Jul 31, 8:59 pm, Roar <rory.tabular...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a PDF that I imported into LiveCycle. In the process of putting

> mytextfields into the document I changed them to be AppearanceUnderline. When I preview in PDF they don't show theunderline. If I

[Duane Nickull]

I’ll file this as a bug with Adobe.  Thank you for sharing this.

Duane