Unique Highlighting Elements in Form Fields

Hi all
My boss is asking me to build an interactive PDf file for in-office use that has some unique highlighting features. She wants the viewer to select an option on the PDF file, and when they make that selection, a box or rectangle outlines the choice. When the administrator saves the document to archive, and production opens it up to examnine it, the "boxed" selections will give them the options the customer wants.
I've already been to support for this, and have been informed that Acrobat does not have a default script or action that does this, but they suggested that I come to this forum and ask the Acrobat scripting community if there is some Java script out tere that will evoke the effect that I described above, and if so, where can I access it?
Thanx in advance!
Paul

this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots = this.getAnnots({
nPage:0,
nSortBy: ANSB_Author,
bReverse: true
console.show();
console.println("Number of Annotations: " + annots.length);
var msg = "%s in a %s annot said: \"%s\"";
for (var i = 0; i < annots.length; i++)
console.println(util.printf(msg, annots[i].author, annots[i].type, annots[i].contents));
Just as reading the JavaScript API Reference would have given you the above information, you can further read the Annotations class in the JavaScript API Reference to find out other properties of an Annotation object returned from the getAnnot or getAnnots methods.
> The question remains, though: how the heck do we get the name (pointer, handle, whatever) "frame1"?
It even has a "name" property.
Even though it is included with the SDK, so if you have the SDK you have this document, here is a direct link to the JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference. You'll find a lot of information about JavaScript for Acrobat APIs in there.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/js_api_reference.pdf

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