RE: [PDFdev] setting tab order in Acrobat 6

[Mark Storer]

Title: setting tab order in Acrobat 6

It looks like there's a bug in tab order... one I was looking at a month or so ago.

 

If you don't specify tab order through the /Tabs key, the default behavior is to use annotation order.  But there's a bug when document structure is present... without the /Tabs key, it always behaves as if you'd specified structure.  Our form tool attempts to define read order and tab order seperately... and this bug makes it impossible.

 

So if you're looking for an easy way to define tab order but don't feel like messing with document structure, just put the fields into the page's annotation array in tab order.

--Mark Storer
  Software Engineer
  Cardiff Software
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-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Stein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PDFdev] setting tab order in Acrobat 6

I would appreciate if someone could tell me how to set the tab order when creating a PDF using Acrobat 6.  I see the options to use Row Order, Column Order, or Document Structure.  I believe that to set the tab order specifically as I want, I should chose Document Structure.  However, I can't find anywhere to actually set the order. 

This seemed to be much simpler in previous versions of Acrobat.

Thanks,
Drew