Adobe Acrobat

2007-09-11 08:14:12

GARYSR591

Registered: Aug 9 2007

Posts: 3

I created a button on a form in Adobe 8. The button runs a java script openURL. The link goes to an anchor on a web page. It works fine if the user as Adobe 8 installed. But the link does not work with adobe 7. They get the error http 404 page not found. But if the page address and anchor is put in the address bar, it works. Why? What am I missing?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0999999999999996447286321199499070644378662109375, Windows

2007-09-11 10:50:33

thomp

Registered: Feb 15 2006

Posts: 4411

First, there is no product named Adobe. Adobe is a company. Acrobat is the name of one product, another product is Adobe Reader.

the "openURL" function is problematic. It does different things in Acrobat Pro and Reader. It also works differently between different versions of Acrobat. This is becuase it performs actions outside of Acrobat. This means it's subjects to system restrictions and Acrobat security restrictions. Both of which have changed over the recent years. The funtion itself is meant to covert an HTML page into a PDF. This doesn't include the concept of anchors. So there's lots of things that could go wrong and it looks like you hit one of them.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script

2007-09-11 11:24:52

GARYSR591

Registered: Aug 9 2007

Posts: 3

so what is an alternative?

2007-09-12 06:42:38

pddesigner

Registered: Jul 9 2006

Posts: 858

If the form works properly in Reader version 8, write a document level JavaScript to check the users version of Adobe Reader.

if (app.viewerVersion < 8) {
app.alert("You must have Adobe Reader 8.0 or later to use this form.")
this.closeDoc(true)
}

My favorite quote - "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

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