Acrobat Object Model Reference

Well, I think you may be a bit mistaken in you idea of how Acrobat, PDF, and JavaScript are put together, but I'm not sure.

By Acrobat Object Model Do you mean the Acrobat JavaScript DOM? The DOM does not follow the structure of the PDF directly. In fact, most of the PDF structure is not availible to the JavaScript DOM. The structure of a PDF is much, much richer and more complex that anything in HTML. JavaScript in a PDF is about controling interactive elements, like form fields. Not about describing all the content in a PDF, like you have in an HTML.

So you could very well create a tool that displays a tree of PDF objects that Acrobat JavaScript will recognize. But I don't know of anyone who has done this. Mostly because its not as useful as the same tool would be in HTML.

Is this what you are looking for?

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]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]

Thanks Thomp for your reply,
Most of the javascript used in the acrobat work with the acroform objects , now as of now I couldn't find any open source pdf reader which is successful in rendering javascript and intern able to understand acrobat object ( Incidentally Foxit does works pretty well with javascript heavy pdf, but again that's another proprietary software)

for example if the javascript in the pdf does something like this
app.alert ("hello world ")
I want a reference tree for all Acroform objects and their methods and properties.


With DOM I was just trying to draw a parallel.

"JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference":
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9/Acrobat9_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Acrobat9_HTMLHelp&file=JavaScript_SectionPage.70.1.php