Form fields just a block of black print

I am completing a form online but when printing the fields that has no text in them print out in solid black blocks of ink. Why is this happening?

HI,
some tips:
"I'll need a list of fields within the block which the cursor is in"
More generally, you can get the first block of your form using... "GET_FORM_PROPERTY(<your_form>,first_block)"
To get the first the first item of the specified block....
"GET_BLOCK_PROPERTY(block_name,first_item)"
then loop through all items of your block
"GET_ITEM_PROPERTY(item_name,nextitem)"
and if you want to exclude some item types such as buttons....
if GET_ITEM_PROPERTY(item_name,item_type)<>'BUTTON'
Greetings,
Sim

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