Retain colour of writable fields

Can anyone help me? Working on a Mac with Acrobat DC, I have made a writable PDF. Have chosen a soft yellow to highlight the editable fields from my preferences. However when opened by any other computer the colour changes to the default colour in their computer preferences. Is there any way to make sure that the colour I have chosen is retained when opened by any other computer? Many thanks in anticipation.

Hi,
If you include this Javascript in the docReady event of the root node (default "form1").
app.runtimeHighlight = false;
This will turn off the field highlight. It doesn't prevent the user from turning back on the highlight, but it will mean that your form opens with the highlight off.
Hope that helps,
Niall
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