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Writing in a text file

2009-09-04 07:58:57

Horn33t

Registered: Aug 27 2009

Posts: 20

Answered

Hi,
I'd like to know if it's possible to create and write in a text file with adobe JavaScript.
I already saw a topic like mine, and someone advise to use the report object.
I saw documentation on it, and the report object seems to write in a pdf document, but not in a text file.
Is there an object that can write in a real texte file ( *.txt) ?
Thanks a lot
Horn33t

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.1.3, Windows

2009-09-04 08:13:59

gkaiseril

Registered: Feb 23 2006

Posts: 4307

Acrobat can write tab delimited text file. This is documented in the JS API Reference under the 'exprotAsText()' method. This solution was designed to write form data to an Excel file.

George Kaiser

2009-09-04 14:56:44

try67

Registered: Oct 30 2008

Posts: 2398

You can create a plain text file using the createDataObject method.
However, it will create the file as an attachment in the PDF. Adobe changed recently the security settings and in the later versions it's more difficult to export it from there to the actual local drive using a script, but you can still do it manually.

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2009-09-05 07:15:09

gkaiseril

Registered: Feb 23 2006

Posts: 4307

You could even cresate a report and save the PDF report as a text file.

George Kaiser