Behavior when copying or duplicating a form field that is set to show or hide as an action is different from Acrobat SOLVED

[rakunavi]

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The issue reported below has been resolved in Ver 10.6.0 build 396.
I appreciate all the hard work and efforts of the support and development team.
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Hello all,

If you set the "Mouse Enter" action for one form field to hide the other field and the "Mouse Leave" action to show the other field, you can show only the field where the mouse is hovering.

• figure.png

• sample1.pdf

I have noticed that PDF-XChange Editor and Acrobat behave differently when copying fields configured in this way. The behavior is also different when copying using the clipboard and when using the Duplicate command in the Selection menu.

Verification procedure in case of copying

• After copying the original text field with Ctrl+C, copy it to two locations with Ctrl+V. The file at that point is saved as sample2.pdf.
  Then, change to the Hand tool and hover over the original text field, and only the original field will toggle between shown and hidden. In contrast, hovering over the copied field also toggles between showing and hiding all fields. In Acrobat, on the other hand, hovering over either the original or the copied field toggles between showing and hiding all fields.

Verification procedure in case of duplication

• Duplicate the original text field in two places with the Selection > Duplicate command. The file at that point is saved as sample3.pdf.
  Then, when I changed to the Hand tool, hovering over any field toggles only the original text field between showing and hiding. In Acrobat, on the other hand, as in the case of copying, hovering over either the original or the copied field toggles the showing and hiding of all fields.

In short, you can see that the behavior is different in PDF-XChange Editor for the original field and the copied or duplicated field, whereas in Acrobat the behavior is the same for both fields. The details of what was verified are better explained in the video than in words.

• Animation.gif

• sample2.pdf
• sample3.pdf

I am not going to say that the behavior in Acrobat is correct, because it may not be strictly defined in the ISO standard. However, I am reporting this because it seems a bit odd that the results are different for copying and duplicating, even though both are functions of the PDF-XChange Editor.

Hoping that the above information will be of some help to you.
Thank you so much for your continued support.

Best regards,
rakunavi

- PDF-XChange Editor PRO Version: 10.5.2 build 395
- Adobe Acrobat Reader Continuous Release Version 2025.001.20435 (64-bit)
- OS Version: Windows 11 Pro / Home 24H2 Build 26100.3775
- PC Model: GMKtec Nucbox M7 Pro with HUION Kamvas Pro 19 / Lenovo IdeaPad C340-15IWL

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, rakunavi

Thank you for the report, this is certainly a strange one, but I see the same here and have passed it up to the Dev team for review.

RT#7419: bug: Field inherited actions oddity
While I have created this ticket and flagged it as a bug, the Dev team is still uncertain if this is actually erroneous handling. In turn this is moreso an investigative ticket, than an actual bug fixing item at this point.

Kind regards,

[rakunavi]

Thank you, Daniel, for creating the ticket!

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule.
Please give my best regards to developers.

Best regards,
rakunavi

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]