InDesign / Acrobat Mystery - interactivebuttons misinterpreted as form fields by Acrobat

[Rosta_Vanek@adobeforums.com]

hi everybody

I am quickly approaching a deadline and have only few hair left... i stumbled upon a bug or whatever in InDesign... After countless hours of pinpointing the root of the error i am able to reconstruct the error scenerio in few steps that go like this:

1 - create a blank ID document with 37 pages
2 - go to Master Page A in that document
3 - create 3 interactive buttons with the button tool anywhere on the Master Page A, leave the buttons blank
4 - export all pages to PDF with all interactive options ON

NOW !

what i get when i open this PDF in Acrobat is an annoying pink bar across the width of the page saying this:

Please fill out the following form. If you are a form author, choose Distribute Form in the Forms menu to send it to your recipients.

NOW WHERE THE HACK IS THAT COMING FROM AND HOW TO TURN IT OFF !!!

TO MAKE YOUR HEAD TWIST !

try exporting the same ID document but only pages 1-20 and the annoying pink stripe does not appear in this case... crazy - no changes to the document...

please help ASAP i wasted two days figuring this out...

since this is a king of ID/ACRO combined problem appearing on PC or MAC i post it on all related forums... sorry i see no other options...

[Jon Bessant]

I'm NOT getting this with InDesign 5.03 and BOTH Acrobat 8.12 and 9.0

Update your InDesign and try again - hopefully you'll be happy ;-)

JOn

[Rosta_Vanek@adobeforums.com]

Jon are you sure you didnt differ in the setup of the document? Did you export all 37 pages?... I ALSO HAVE INDESIGN 5.0.3 and i am pretty much sure this behavior doesnt have to do anything with program versions or platforms...

I exported PDF from INDESIGN 5.0.3 and opened the same PDF in these:

ACROBAT PROFFESIONAL 8.0.0 MAC
- bar appears !

ACROBAT READER 9.0 PC
- bar appears !

ACROBAT PROFFESIONAL 6.0 PC
- bar DOESNT appear (the form function wasnt probably implemented yet when 6.0 was released) !

ACROBAT PROFFESIONAL 8.1.2 MAC
- only a pink icon appears instead of a bar, THATS NOT GOOD ENOUGH i cannot tell everybody that he must update to Acrobat 8.1.2 (or downgrade in case of 9.0) prior to opening my PDF !

Iam sorry maybe i wasnt exactlly replicating your setup but I need a better way around so that its 100% safe to open the PDF in ANY VERSION of Acrobat without worring that clients get perplexed with some inapropriate prompts to fill a form.

[Rosta_Vanek@adobeforums.com]

Jon i tested on 2 different PCs with different OS installation using Acrobat Reader 9.0 and the pink bar appears on both...

I also tested on 2 different MACs with pretty same OS config but one has Acrobat 8.0 and one has Acrobat 8.1.2 and 8.0 shows the bar, 8.1.2 show the icon...

I did my best to crosscheck 4 different computers and i can only submit the PDF to the client only when ALL ACROBAT VERSIONS will be safe without the pink bar appearing...

[Jon Bessant]

Do you want to put this ID and PDF document somewhere so we can take a look?

Jon

[Rosta_Vanek@adobeforums.com]

-------------------- PROBLEM SOLVED -------------------------

ok so to make it quick the whole ill behaviour seems to be a bug appearing only in combination of InDesign 5.0.x and Acrobat 8.0.0 for Macintosh, the problem could be solved using Acrobat 8.1.2

since most of the bug fixes in Acrobat 8.1 and 8.1.2 updates are according to Adobe "bug fixes of Form-Related Issues" this makes total sense...

-------------------- QUICKEST SOLUTION ------------------------

1 - upgraded to Acrobat 8.1.2 for Macintosh
2 - exported the PDF -WITHOUT- any buttons
3 - opened the PDF in Acrobat 8.1.2 and created the buttons manually inside Acrobat 8.1.2

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ANYBODY WITH ACROBAT 8.0.0 FOR MACINTOSH WILL STILL SEE THE PINK BAR !!!

EVERYBODY ELSE (READER 9.0, ACROBAT 8.1.2) WONT SEE THE PINK BAR OR ICON ANYMORE!!!

GOOD BYE EVRYBODY AND THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED ME SOLVE THE PROBLEM...