[scribus] Text Field question

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Sun May 22 12:44:19 UTC 2011


On 05/22/2011 05:24 AM, K.King wrote:
> <<
> I have a quick question regarding text fields. The effect I want to achieve
> is to have a border around the text field when it is being viewed in a pdf
> reader, but not have the border print out. In other words, I want the
> border
> just to serve as an indicator to the user that there is a fillable text
> field there, but I want the text to print without the border. Is this
> possible?
>  >>
>
> newer versions PDF itself (1.5+) support layers that can be marked as
> Always Print, Never Print, or Print When Visible.
> But not sure if Scribus can generate these "PDF" layers?
>
A caution I would give here is that we have seen some issues (text 
placement in the fields) when exporting a PDF form to version 1.4, so it 
seems that export to 1.3 gives better results. I haven't tried 1.5.

Greg



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