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Custom Form Question

2009-10-12 18:50:16

nahpishtim

Registered: Oct 12 2009

Posts: 30

Okay so I'm a college student and dabble in making .pdf character sheets for friends that roleplay and I was trying to do something new with the latest request. I'm tinkering with custom calculations. Is it possible to make a form calculation that's not mathematical in nature?

Like if you choose "blue" from box1's drop down menu box2 shows a preset response like "green".

Bit of a crude example but hope that expresses the question well enough.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.3, Windows

2009-10-12 21:23:29

Dimitri

Registered: Nov 1 2005

Posts: 1389

Hi nahpishtim,

Yes, you can. Read the article at the link below, it includes links for downloadable PDFs that do what you want to do, choose text from a dropdown and then populate another field with a text result.

http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/js_list_combo_livecycle

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com

Dimitri Munkirs
WindJack Solutions
pdfscripting.com

2009-10-16 23:15:29

nahpishtim

Registered: Oct 12 2009

Posts: 30

Unfortunately the above script is a little out of my league at this moment. Is there a more simplistic option for individual forms instead of document wide scripts? Like If variables?

if Form_1A = blue then Form_1B is Green if does not = blue then Form_1B is Yellow

Unfortunately the above script is a little out of my league at this moment.