sharing form data inside a portfolio

Hi formatix,


From a script in the cover sheet you can access both files and transfer data, but that is about all you can do.

Hope this helps,

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

Hi Dimitri,

thanks for your reply. Do you know if there is an example anywhere?
My idea: there is a "name" field inside all pdfs within a portfolio, if you fill it out inside one of the pdfs and open another pdf inside the portfolio, the "name" field get the same value.

Perhaps in Acrobat 8 it's the same way with attachments, but didn't find any example.

Best regards

You won't find any examples because a document script for transfering data is a very awkward solution. For example, which document is choosen as the source. The embedded documents themselves have no knowledge that they are embedded files and the cover document does not recieve events telling it when an embedded file is changes.

Its much better to create a folder level script for filling all of the embedded files at the same time.

Thom Parker
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