Non-Printing Background?

I've got a form I've designed in InDesign and exported to Acrobat. For spice I have a background color. But, some users are going to have to fax this. Because of this I'd like the background color to be non-printing. Is there a way to do this?

The previous link above no longer works, so here is a link to another forum post that might help:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/305111
You can try the "Form Fields Only" option in your print dialog box. Also, there are instructions for making a non-printing background. It helped me!!

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I need to make a form for an overprint on a 4-up postcard sheet. The postcard is preprinted, but I want to show it in the PDF form so that the user knows where the data is going to be when they print out the form. So basically I need everything but the form data to be non printing. I tried looking for something like this in the Help but I don't know what keywords to use to look for this. Is it possible?
I have Acrobat Pro 8.

You could use the background option to import the comp and then fade
back using the opacity level - this would then provide a background
which (if configured) would show inside the PDF but not print ..
Jon

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I have a pdf form that I wish to use as a template. The problem is that the form is already printed and all I want to print is the field data, omitting the background template from printing over the form. How can I do this?
It seems as though there is no control over the template.
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The previous link above no longer works, so here is a link to another forum post that might help:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/305111
You can try the "Form Fields Only" option in your print dialog box. Also, there are instructions for making a non-printing background. It helped me!!

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In InDesign CS4 I was able to set buttons and their backgrounds as non-printing. In CS5 with the new interactive option this does not seem to be available.
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I have a logo. The top is on a path applied to an oval. Same with the bottom. In the middle is an ampersand (&). When I try to print, only the ampersand prints. I've tried printing to 2 different machines. I also tried saving it as a PDF but I lose everything except the ampersand in the middle. Everything is colored black, so there are no weird colors going on. Non-printing is not applied to anything. Any thoughts? I can send the file to somebody if they want to check it out.
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Sorry for the delay. Spent some time looking for the font becasue I'm on Windows.
I opened it first in CS5, and after font substitution it exported fine, so I figured maybe it was a font problem on your end, but just to be safe I opened it in CS3 to check. Same problem here that you have on your end.
Good news, though. I exported to .inx and opened that. That page opened at 11 inches high, which may be part of the problem, but after resizing, it exported correctly. This is a pretty good inidcator of some minor corruption that is fixable by the export. See Remove minor corruption by exporting

Why is my page set up drop down different from your illustration in help for printing background

''duplicate - https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/830795''
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first, does it sound like I set it up correctly from what I wrote?
Yes, all sounds correct.
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Exporting a PDF so that non-printing objects show but don't print?

I've just spent a couple hours trying to find an answer to this in the forums, but can't. (The most frustrating was one thread where the original poster said, "I found the answer here," and gave a link that went right back to the main page of the forum. Argh.)
Okay, anyway ... what I need to do?
I've got a document with graphics that I want to show up on the pdf when I export it, but that--if a reader prints it--don't print.
The document looks like a 3-ring binder with "tabs" for each section--just like the real thing. But the rings and tabs go right up to the edge and look terrible when printed, and whose printer can print right at the edge of the paper, anyway? But the tabs work as navigational links while looking a the pdf, and the rings just make it look cool, so I WANT them in the pdf.
I've tried:
Turning the entire layer into a non-printing layer (one that "shows" but does not "print"). But when I export it to a pdf, it doesn't show up on the pdf to look at OR to print. So that doesn't work.
Using the Attribute option to turn each object into a non-printing object, but so far as I can tell, that doesn't do a thing, because they still print from the pdf.
Exporting with the "create pdf layers" turned on and off. Exporting with the "include non-printing items" turned on and off.
Basically, I've pretty much tried everything. I gather, from browsing the forums, that this is POSSIBLE, but can't for the life of me figure out what to do to make it happen. (Short of hiding the tabs' layer and creating an entirely separate PDF and calling it "Print version" which is not exactly what I want to do!)
Is there maybe some magical combination of ons and offs I need to select to make this whole thing work?
(And, seriously, am I the only person who thinks the supporting documentation is just dreadful? I can't find anything in any of the Help screens that even mentions this, much less explains how to do it.)
Any help is appreciated!!
--Deb

Partial progress...
The button option (and, I'm using CS3, by the way--I should have said that originally) does work in terms of showing on the pdf but not printing.
The problem is that it messes up the way the document looks.
I said it's designed to look like a 3-ring binder with tab-dividers between each section, and each tab has a hyperlink to take you to that section.
Now, when you've got a paper binder in front of you, the tabs stay in the same sequence, and often overlap a bit (which mine do). The problem I'm having, having turned all of them into buttons, is that when you click on any of them, it "jumps" to the front of the row, so that they don't "flow" in the correct sequence.
Am I explaining this well? You know, the top-most tab is at the top of the pile, the next one is always below it and above the third one, and so on ... you never see the second tab on TOP of the first one. I'm trying to get the document to act as close to a hard-copy binder as I can, and it did ... except the buttons keep jostling each other for attention...
I'm going to go play around with this some more now, but ... any suggestions? (Other than restructuring my tabs so that they don't overlap at all?)

Recent InDesign change suppresses non-printing layers when exporting to EPUB

I hate it when development teams quiety "fix" features I've come to rely on.
I am using InDesign CC 9.2.
Until a recent update, when I exported a book to EPUB from InDesign, layers which were set to show but not print were included in the export. I relied on this because my documents include a non-printed Table of Contents block on the first page of each piece included in the anthology. This block causes the correct page to be set when generating the TOC (notice that it's on the page facing the title, not the title page itself) and is used to print the correct title on the title page of each story and running headers throughout the body.
(An example document - Click for full size)
Up to at least January 2014, when I exported to EPUB, that visible-but-not-printed block was included in the XHTML output. I could then modify CSS to optimize for e-reader display and the title and author names would appear at the top of each piece. Sometime within the past couple of months, that has changed: layers that are not printed also do not export to EPUB. This wouldn't be so big a problem except that the printed title in the image above also is not output to the EPUB file, because it's a text variable in the underlying master page.
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The new output:
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Going back through every document to override Master Page objects just to get the elements to export is not a realistic workaround.
The change that suppresses visible but non-printing objects is annoying, but at least it's a documented change in 9.2. The change that suppresses all Master Page elements as well is not documented (or at least not documented in an obvious way) and so to me it's a bug.
Ideally, if these new changes are required by some users, the old behavior could at least become an option: the export to EPUB dialog could add checkboxes for "Include non-printing objects" and/or "Include Master Page elements" so that users like me are not left with no way to continue to use existing functionality.

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Please help with newline non-printing character in JTextPane.

Hi.
I need to implement "View non-printing characters" feature in my JTextPane.
So when this feature is toggled, the newline character is displayed at the end of every line like in Microsot Word editor.
I been digging around for few hours now and I cant find a solution for this.
Please help me with any tips guys.

StanislavL:
ok i digged around and i found code example... i got my code to show "X" at the end of every line as a newline character. here is code I used:
import javax.swing.text.StyledEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.ViewFactory;
import javax.swing.text.Element;
import javax.swing.text.View;
import javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument;
import javax.swing.text.LabelView;
import javax.swing.text.IconView;
import javax.swing.text.StyleConstants;
import javax.swing.text.ComponentView;
import javax.swing.text.BoxView;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Shape;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
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          short left=20;
          short bottom=0;
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If you do add buttons and options for every possible use because if you do add buttons for every single little use case you soon end up with something like this: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Shots/BRUMainScreen.gif
I do argue that it is the job of the web developer to make sure that colors and layout is as good as possible. If you need expert level control over the web page you can do the following:
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Now you can inspect the web page and delete any CSS files that have media="print"
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If you are unsuccessful with the above option, try this second option: Open Safari preferences, go to advanced options, check to show the developer menu.
Save the web page and open the CSS files in your favorite editor and remove any @media print and media="print" rules and files and you should be all set.
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File/Page Setup/Format & Options/Options/Print Background (colors & images): Check box set off.
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Hi.
I have created in Indesign a 8 page pdf with hyperlinks (as a nav bar on each page)
I have set the colourful headers and footers on each page as non printing.
I am trying to create a PDF that will be colourful on screen, but when the browser goes to print it out the headers and footers will not output.
trouble is, they are still printing
I have tried exporting as smallest file/ high quality print and non printing options are ticked (otherwise the headers dont appear at all on screen)
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Go to Window>Interactive>States
In the fly menu for the States panel (top right of panel) click the arrow pointing down, and a sub menu pops out.
Go to Button Options and to the tab that says "Behaviors"
Event: Mouse Down
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URL: (insert the url)
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What I'm trying to do is this.
My (inherited) ID CS4 document has 5 chapters. On each chapter title page, there are two separate header styles (with very different formatting). One says,for instance, 'Chapter 1' and the other provides a description, such as: 'Managing Applications'
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If I tell the TOC to pull in both styles, I get (on two lines):
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I am writing a program to implements the caesar cipher. For the program I am using ASCII code so my encryption algorithm is:
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So my code reads in the plain text from a file converts each character to ascii, encrypts each character using the key. It then writes the encrypted ascii values to a file as text (i.e. the character equivalent of the ascii).
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