Hi Hans, the support of transparent colors in fields seems to be broken (beta 03.11.06). The attached example works with a non transparent backgroundcolor, but breaks with a transparent one. Same behaviour on ConTeXt Live. \definecolor [notebackgroundcolor] % [s=.85] [s=1,a=1,t=.9] There is another problem with field activation (not in this example). When the doc opens, the fields (region in/out) are kind of inactive. Normally a tooltip note is shown/hidden, if the area is entered/left. Only after "activating" the fields by pressing "R" and "H" in Acrobat, they become alive. After that they work as expected. I am still working on a minimal example for this case. Greetings, Peter