[pdftex] Linux AR5.0.10 bug?: "Expected a name object" - Radio Buttons

[Hans Hagen]

Marco Loskamp wrote:

> Now, what happened with my file is that I declared a radio *parent* button 
> as an annotation, so that ended up in the /Annots[...] array. BUT: a radio
> button is NOT an annotation, it's only a simple PDF object. So, declaring
> it with \pdfobj solved the problem. I'm soo thrilled it works now!

more precisely: a radio button is a collection of related buttons; each of those 
buttons is an annotation; the relationship between the buttons is defined in the 
parent object (since it is not rendered and has no actions it's an ordinary 
object);

if in your previous attempts the 'parent' was an annotation, it normally should 
not fail because the 'type/subtype keys' would be ignored (keys that don;t make 
sense are mostly ignored); it's probably the print backend that ran into 
troubles, nor being able to render an appearance for your parent (since it was 
mentioned in the annots it had to)

Hans

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