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Is Acrobat Javascript Console Useless on a MacBook Pro?

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2011-05-10 14:35:51
tcb
Registered: May 12 2008
Posts: 15
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Have a brand new Apple MacBook Pro running latest, fully patched version of Snow Leopard 10.6.7.
 
I'm running Acrobat 10.0.2 for Mac.
 
I can invoke the javascript console perfectly with Apple's COMMAND-J key-combination, but once in the console I can't run or execute ANY single or multi-line Javascripts because apparently my MacBook Pro, being a laptop, lacks a Numeric Keypad with the Num Pad Enter key.
 
And Control-ENTER, Shift-ENTER, Option-ENTER and Command-ENTER don't work either.
 
I can't believe this is a new or unknown problem in the Acrobat Community.
 
Don't really want to have to buy an external keyboard simply to develop Acrobat Scripts - and especially so for a laptop.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0.2, Macintosh
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2011-05-10 14:44:57
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George_Johnson
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Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
Accepted Answer
Unfortunately, that's the way it is, and certainly isn't new. There is a clunky workaround, though, as described here: http://www.khk.net/wordpress/2010/03/23/javascript-console/

See the comments for some other possibilities.
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2011-05-10 23:50:11
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
This might do the trick...
http://try67.blogspot.com/2010/05/reader-run-javascript-code-from-within.php

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