Hello,
there's been numerous topics on setting an object's (e.g. text field) attribute "fillcolor" to "transparent" (NOT to "255,255,255") after assigning it a (default) color for various reasons. All solutions implement a work-around by means of the "presence" attribute or similar.
The reason I explicitely need to set a text field back to transparent fillcolor is simple:
I have an imported PDF as a basis for my form. This PDF contains a table. I created text fields for every cell in the table.
Initially, all these fields have a blue background showing they can be edited/filled. In order for the color not to show on printouts, I have assigned the following javascript actions to all of them:
- preprint:
$.fillcolor="255,255,255"; // sets the color to white
- postprint:
$.fillcolor="190,190,255"; // reverts to original color (light blue)
This works fine except the lines of the imported PDF's original table don't show on the printout because the text fields are partly a little bigger than the table cells and thus cover them with their white background. It would be a lot of work to resize them all and make them accurate.
A very simple solution would be setting the fields' fillcolor to transparent on preprint instead of white. This would work if I didn't want them to be of a certain color initially before printing. After setting a textfield's fillcolor, there seems to be no way of removing it again.
Or is there?
Regards, Matt
