Re: upside-down form elements?

[Matthew Baker <mbaker@zeus.gmd.de>]

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Can you also test the travel form? 

Same problem

> I encountered this problem with a form I made for Han The Thanh, but was
> not able to trace it. Acro 4 is more troublesome than Acro 3. I reported
> this bug several times to adobe, but it seems they didn't repair it. 

I've been looking at the Postscript output.  Just before teach of my form
elements there something like

1 0 0 -1 162.73999 710.22999 cm

and this is causing the problem.    The -1 should be 1.  However this
places the test above the box in which it is supposed to appear, ie
Acrobat's PS converter seems to have intelligently been able to reposition
the upside-down text.  

> The interesting thing is that I do not do anything special, just normal
> xforms and fields. Rather strange eh? 

I have no doubt in my mind that this is an Acrobat bug, given that a) it
looks fine in PDF and b) every version of reader I try seems to do
something different (either printing upside-down text, not printing
anything or plain not letting me type into the fields!).  The question is,
is it a bug that can be worked around?

I haven't tried this in windows yet.  Will try to today (Windows machines
here are much scarcer than Unix boxes).

- Matt

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