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Scribus => Beginner Talk => Topic started by: SlayerDragonwing on July 01, 2025, 01:26:34 AM

Title: Want to Get Rid of PDF Text Field Borders
Post by: SlayerDragonwing on July 01, 2025, 01:26:34 AM
Hello everyone,

I'm new to Scribus and trying to create a form-fillable version of a character sheet for a tabletop game, and running into issues with borders. I have set the stroke colour setting for each PDF Text Field to "None", and when I print the file to PDF using Scribus the borders are not present, but when I Save to PDF and open the file in Adobe, each field has an ugly black border around it. Printing to PDF from Adobe also maintains the borders. How can I get rid of these?
Title: Re: Want to Get Rid of PDF Text Field Borders
Post by: AdmFubar on July 01, 2025, 05:50:56 AM
when you print to a file as a pdf, then open it in acrobat how is that displayed?
Title: Re: Want to Get Rid of PDF Text Field Borders
Post by: SlayerDragonwing on July 02, 2025, 11:13:53 PM
When I try that, the file opens as a regular PDF, with neither the fillable sections nor the border boxes showing.
Title: Re: Want to Get Rid of PDF Text Field Borders
Post by: AdmFubar on July 03, 2025, 03:56:32 AM
post a sample pdf here. I want to take a look at it.
Title: Re: Want to Get Rid of PDF Text Field Borders
Post by: SlayerDragonwing on July 03, 2025, 07:45:43 AM
Here it is, along with the Scribus file. I had to add them to .zip files since they were just too big to attach on their own.
Title: Re: Want to Get Rid of PDF Text Field Borders
Post by: AdmFubar on July 03, 2025, 08:47:41 PM
There is a lil trick to doing this!  Double click the input field *, you should get a window that opens with the attributes for editing the box. :)

now for the weird part.. YMMV on this...

Once I edited one box they all became invisible.. which is a nice surprise as editing 106 of thise manually would be tedious

One additional note... i did  this in 1.7

*You can also single click the frame to select, the right click, in the popup menu look for PDF Properties, then Field Properties,
Title: Re: Want to Get Rid of PDF Text Field Borders
Post by: SlayerDragonwing on July 03, 2025, 10:50:43 PM
I just tested it and it worked! Thank you so much! Unfortunately only the one I edited changed, so I will have to do the others manually, but that is so much better than floundering around in the dark. Thanks again!