I am modifying a PDF form by hand (in text editor) and so far it's been a lot less impossible then I expected (save for a few missing options that I thought would be obvious), but now I'm trying to a have certain fields have filled in values, and I'm stuck.
Basically, if I set the value in the PDF using /V (some value) and then open the PDF, I don't see the value. But when I click on the field, it pops up. I click somewhere else,it goes away.
I found a solution online that everyone with this problem said was the answer,which is to set the text field background color to transparent (or clear), which is odd, because several places online mention that text annotations are clear by default.
But I don't have Acrobat, and the whole point of this is to avoid involving a PDF editor that will bloat the form or change it around from how I want it. I've read through the PDF 1.7 documentation but I can't make heads or tails on either a) how the transparency model works or b) how to apply it to my text fields.
I'm really hoping this will be simple and I can just add some color object to the /DA (default appearance) to my global form dictionary, but like I said, I'm stuck.
So bottom line, does anyone know how to do this by hand? even just a map of how to get there would be nice.