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The reason for this behavior is most likely to be sought in the whole "accessability" craziness. "accessability" requires that each and every interactive element must be reachable without a pointing device. This means that form fields and links are forcibly put into one single tab order sequence.
There are essentially two workarounds:
1. Use form fields _only_. This allows you to put the "link-equivalents" into the tab order in a more controlled matter.
2. Use the setFocus() method to hardwire your tab order, allowing you to circumvent the tab-access of the links.
Note that this problem has nothing to do with the way and Acrobat version the document has been created; it has to do with the version of the viewer.
Hope, this can help.
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I have several two page forms with form fields on both pages. I also have links on the page to other documents and the web. These are posted primarily to Acrobat Reader 5 customers on Win 95.
When tabbing through the fields it selects each of the link boxes as if it was a field. This is confusing to my customer who doesn't want to select the links and wants the form to flow like it did in Acrobat 4.X. This only happens in Acrobat 5, when these files are opened in 4 and 6 work as they should.
I've rebuilt the forms on both a Mac and a PC from Acrobat 4, 5, and 6, the problem still persists in Acrobat 5 and Reader 5. I've looked at using form fields and setting the Tab order, but Tab order is limited to one page in Acrobat 5 and I have links that go inside other pdfs.
Having the customer change his version of Reader isn't a go. He insists on it working consistently on the three latest versions of Reader. I don't blame him, i just don't know how to make it work. Any suggestions?
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