Tutorials: Enhance PDF using JavaScript

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Entering Document Scripts Thom Parker – Jul 20, 2007 Document Level Scripts, also called Document Scripts or Document JavaScripts, reside at the top of the PDF document scripting hierarchy. These scripts are loaded and run when a PDF is opened in Acrobat. For all practical purposes they can be considered Document Open Scripts. Topics: Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		8754		07/20/2007
Automatically Add Buttons to a PDF Thom Parker – Jun 20, 2007 Acrobat automation with JavaScript can seriously short circuit the task of manually adding buttons to your PDF documents, especially large, non-form documents. But if it's not a form, why add buttons to a PDF? Answer: To make your document easier to use. Topics: Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		7693		06/20/2007
Creating Radio CheckBoxes Thom Parker – May 30, 2007 Radio buttons are very useful form-field controls. They provide the user with the simple multiple-choice selections we’ve come to know and love on all those exams we took as schoolchildren, in which we were instructed to 'Select one and only one answer.' But if you’re in the form-creation business, you’ve probably run into the situation where you want to give users the option of not selecting any choice. This can be very frustrating. With traditional radio buttons, you can select another choice, but you can’t unselect the current choice. For this we need a new kind of control, what I call the Radio Checkbox. Topics: Create and analyze forms, Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		9314		05/30/2007
What’s New with Acrobat 8 JavaScript Thom Parker – May 7, 2007 With each previous version of Acrobat, the JavaScript DOM (Document Object Model) has improved by leaps and bounds. The DOM is the set of objects that expose Acrobat functionality to JavaScript. JavaScript was introduced in Acrobat 3.02 with a paltry seven objects. Acrobat 4.0 cleaned up and filled out the basic functionality. Acrobat 5.0 super-charged the DOM with the addition of Application Level services like ODBC access, text to speech, security and digital signatures, as well as increasing the functionality of existing objects. Acrobat 6 introduced advanced services like SOAP, multimedia, OCG, toolbar buttons and full custom dialogs. Acrobat 7 added XML processing and two new JavaScript DOMs — XFA (LiveCycle) and 3D. Topics: Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		1048		05/07/2007
Entering scripts into a Link Action Thom Parker – Apr 5, 2007 A link object on a PDF document is similar to an invisible button field. The link object is intended to provide a kind of hyperlink capability for Acrobat. Topics: Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		478		04/05/2007
Application-Response Dialogs and Transposing Form Data Ted Padova – Mar 19, 2007 Last week I talked about submitting forms from PDF Packages. To continue this series on PDF Interactivity. I'll cover a few items that can add interactive features to PDF forms. Topics: Create and analyze forms, Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		3916		03/19/2007
Popup menus, Part I Ted Padova – Feb 27, 2007 In a previous article in this series on PDF interactivity, I talked about using bookmarks to navigate a collection of PDF files. In this article, I’ll discuss an alternative to bookmarks--popup menus that perform a similar task for document and page navigation. Topics: Merge and combine files, Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		618		02/27/2007
Popup menus for Acrobat (A great user-interface item) Thom Parker – Feb 5, 2007 Acrobat 5.0 introduced a new user-interface item, the popup menu. This item is perfect for giving the user a quick list of choices. It’s similar to the combo box (drop-down list) form field, but it’s not a form field and has a couple advantages over the combo box. Popup menus are created dynamically through the App Object so they don’t take up any space on the PDF, a definite plus in many situations. Another big advantage over the combo box field is the ability to create hierarchical lists of choices, making popup menus more useful for many types of applications. Topics: Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		1670		02/05/2007
Adding Custom Menu Commands Ted Padova – Jan 20, 2007 One of the great things I like about Acrobat is that it offers me freedom--for customizing the Acrobat workspace and for adding many dynamic, interactive actions to my PDF files. In this new series, I'll share some tips on adding interactive features to Acrobat and PDF files. Topics: Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		15291		01/20/2007
Changing Another Field with Combo Box (Drop Down) Selection Thom Parker – Dec 7, 2006 Selections from a Combo, or DropDown Box, are often used to modify a PDF form in some way. For example, pre-populating or hiding a block of form fields, resetting lists, changing how calculations are done, etc. Using Combo Boxes like this is an excellent way to create dynamic and interactive documents. Topics: Enhance PDF using JavaScript Products covered:		20747		12/07/2006

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