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Advice on including calculation inside PDF

zhou500
Registered: Jan 19 2007
Posts: 2

We need to send out a invoice to our cusotmer. We hope to build a temperate so that our associates just need to key in price/item and Qty. The pdf will automatically calculate subtotal cost. Then add all subtotal cost together to get total cost. Thanks!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 6, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Please read this article

[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tech_corners/javascript_corner/tips/2006/form_calculations/]http://www.acrobatusers.com/tech_corners/javascript_corner/tips/2006/form_calculations/[/url]

Thom Parker
WindJack Solutions
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The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/sdk/
pdf/javascript/AcroJS.pdf]Acrobat JavaScript Reference[/url]

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adobecurious
Registered: Mar 26 2008
Posts: 21
The link to the article doesn't seem to work anymore. How do I do a calculation?
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
AUC has reogranized the site older links are no longer working.

I think Thom was pointing you to [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/form_calculations]How to do (not so simple) form calculations[/url].

You might also want to look at [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/tt_sample_calculations]Setting up Forms Fields that Calculate[/url] and [url=https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a200985228/p17266135/]Getting Started with Froms[/url]

George Kaiser