Thanks for watching! Unfortunately, due to the way Adobe Acrobat handles user preferences, there isn't a foolproof method to universally disable these highlights for all recipients. The best approach is to communicate with your clients and guide them on how to adjust their settings to have the best user experience. The only other workaround I have is to try to design the interactive elements to make them blend better with the overall design of your PDF. This won't remove the blue highlighting but might make it less noticeable. Good luck!

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Hi Lauren, thanks for watching! I'm pretty sure this is a viability issue, and you need to go to Acrobat Preferences > Forms > then uncheck 'Show border hover color and fields.' Hope that helps!

Hi! Those are the colors that I was using. You can get the exact colors and a free AI file to follow along here: ashleaspitz.com/blend-flower-tutorial

haha! Yea, it's such a shame!

Hi there, you can download the Ai file with all the color codes here ashleaspitz.com/blend-flower-tutorial

Thanks for your lovely message and support! Glad to help. :)

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Hi Dr. Sarah Rattray, thank you very much for watching! That is a great question and something that Adobe really needs to work out in new releases. The short answer is unfortunately you can not override the updated design in Acrobat, so if you make any changes in InDesign and export the PDF, then you will also need to update the Acrobat manually each time. Adobe really needs to integrate more Acrobat features into InDesign. If it is a small design update you want to make, you could use the 'Edit' function in Acrobat Pro to adjust and edit some design elements.

@@AshleaSpitz - thank you SO much for your prompt and clarifying reply. That's what I was afraid of, now I can at least stop searching for how to do it! I will see how much I can edit in Acrobat. For example, if I want to change the wording of a prompt or title, maybe I can do that in Acrobat, but if I update the graphics I assume I can only do that in InDesign.

Thanks for the nice comment, glad to have helped. Yes you may be experiencing that because the Acrobat preferences are overriding your InDesign settings, so you will need to go to Acrobat Preferences > Forms > then uncheck 'Show border hover color and fields.'

@@AshleaSpitz Thank you that really changed behaviour even if the fillable form fields are no longer marked this way. But as every user might have their own different settings it's not in our hands how the document looks in the end I guess :)

Thanks so much for watching! Yes and No. Not all readers are equal. You will get inconsistencies in readers that are not "Adobe friendly". The default viewer for PDF documents in Mac is Preview. Preview will open PDF documents for viewing but it will NOT display dynamic/interactive content embedded into PDF forms such as drop down menus and calendar features. For Mac users to be able to see this content, they must tell their computer to open PDF files with Adobe Reader or using an Adobe Acrobat extension in the browser. This is sort of Adobe's way of keeping things in their own platforms. Similar to how some files will only work for PC vs Mac. The only other workaround for an interactive form to be consistent across all views would be to put it online in a web page.

@@AshleaSpitz This was very helpful, thank you!

I'm so happy it's helped you! Thanks for the feedback. 😀