Field associated with Pagenumber?

First, as a general rule, fields names should not contain special characters or spaces. This is because these fields may be used in code, special characters and spaces can make them difficult or impossible to manipulate with a script. This is just a best practice, not an absolute rule.

Another best practice is to give the fields meaningful names, to that when your are referencing the fields in code, or from some external application you can make sense of them.

Naming fields is long and tedious and unfortunately JavaScript cannot be used to directly rename a file. But since you are repeating the same page many times there is something you can do. You can use page templates. Look up page templates in the Acrobat Help and in the Acrobat JavaScript Reference.

All you do is turn the page into a template, and then run some code from the console window to spawn new pages with different field names. This can only be done on Acrobat Standard and Pro. So this is somthing that only you can do to setup your form.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

You might want to look at [url=http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=a_lesson_in_templates_for_adob&gid=6466]A Lesson in Templates for Adobe Acrobat[/url] by Dave Wright for an article about creating and programing for templates.

Thanks
Exactly what I was looking for!

This helps me so much :)

Have a nice weekend!

Hi again
If I would like to make createTemplate to work with Acrobat Reader, how do I do then?
In the documentation its written that I need version 5 or 6 to do this. It also tells me that "Advanced Form Features rights" needs te be enabled.

How do I enable this? Is it a setting in Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Reader?

/niclas

Reader does not support templates.

Well... Reader does support template. But like you saw in the Reference, it requires the "Templates" Reader Rights Enabling. This is not one of the Rights provided by Acrobat Pro 9. In order to get it you have to purchase it from Adobe. And it's not cheap.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]