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october sun
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Cannot turn off text box border

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Hello,

I recently upgraded from Viewer to Editor (yesterday).

When I create a text box, I can set the box to have no fill, but there is not an option to set it to have no outline, the outline always has to have a color.

QUESTION: Is there a way to set the text box to have no outline?

- Jeremy
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Re: Cannot turn off text box border

Post by Tracker Supp-Stefan »

Hello Jeremy,

Thanks for the question.
The PDF specification mandates that there is always an outline specified for such boxes - and the Viewer allowing you to set it to none was not following the specification exactly. The solution now is to set it's width to 0.00 - this will effectively make it disappear irrespective of what is chosen for border style and colour.

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Stefan
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Re: Cannot turn off text box border

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Thank you Stefan for the workaround.

It's good that you guys are sticking to the specification, this ensures that files can be opened by more viewers. We noticed that our files created by PDF Xchange Viewer were not always compatible.

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Re: Cannot turn off text box border

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That's the idea ;)

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