[pdftex] checked checkbox

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Wed Feb 16 12:20:24 CET 2005


Morten Høgholm wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:35:30 +0100, Heiko Oberdiek  
> <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> the following file works for AR5/Linux:
>>
>> \documentclass[11pt,oneside]{article}
>> \usepackage{hyperref}
>> \begin{document}
>> \begin{Form}
>> \CheckBox[checked=true]{Should be checked:}
>> \end{Form}
>> \end{document}
>>
>> But I have a bug report that the checkbox is not checked
>> with newer versions of AR/Windows. In PDFReference15_v5.pdf
>> I didn't found a hint what possibly goes wrong. (Addition of
>> "/AS/Yes" does not help.)
>>
>> Can someone give me a hint?
> 
> 
> I see a checked box working with pdftex1.20b and Adobe Reader 7.0 for  
> Windows.

   /NeedAppearances true

in the

   /AcroForm

dictionary in the catalog may help (at least it made some other widget things 
work in 5); for some reason widgets are buggy in each version, unfortunately 
different bugs per version

Hans

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