>I wrote [edited]: OR, it might be that they are out of frame, and if they were run into para and floated right, they'd better-associate? (Trying that now--just thought of it!) --- NOPE! As I figured, the PDF doesn't 'know' where these circles are; it just knows that they are vertically aligned; and seems not to care that it is splitting up one of a handful of 'canonical' auto-pairings (Y/N, Yes/No, M/F, Male/Female, Jr/Sr).
I'm totally stumped; and this opposite-of-documented behavior is the LAST hurdle of this months-long organization and design project. My best reference so far, sadly, is a BLOG at Adobe! http://blogs.adobe.com/loridefurio/files/loridefurio/DesigningForms-UE.pdf And it just plain don't work like it says there, vis a vis Yes/No pairs (refer to pg.2).... Oh, and final insult: I changed the dings in one pair to boxes instead of circles... and the damned fool application STILL groups the No/No pairs! I have, right now on my screen, a "radio button" pairing made of a circle No and a square No about 3" above each other pairing, instead of pairing with the Yeses on their own lines less than 1" away! With different dings!! There ain't enough exclamation marks in the wold, for this hoopty BS....
