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Author Archives: Karl Heinz Kremer
Learning to Program JavaScript for Adobe Acrobat
This is a bit longer than usual, so let me add a table of contents here that allows you to jump straight to the section you are interested in. JavaScript in Acrobat What is JavaScript Learning the JavaScript Core Language … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, JavaScript, JavaScript Books, Learning JavaScript
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Mark Selected Options with Circles in PDF Forms
I assume you’ve filled out a paper form with a pen, and circled one or more of the options presented on the form. Can this be done in a PDF form as well? To create such a form, we cannot … Continue reading
Adobe Acrobat’s File Open or Save Dialogs are Slow or Hanging – Here is the Fix!
Is your File Open or File Save/Save As dialog slow to open, or does it look like it’s hanging and never actually coming up? If you are running Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader version DC, the fix for this is … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, PDF
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, adobe reader, Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, Hanging, Online Services, Performance
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Getting a Serial Number Into a Form Using SOAP
One request that shows up again and again on the Adobe Forums (or in the past on AcrobatUsers.com) is about how to generate a unique serial number or form number in a PDF file. The scenario is usually something like … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Programming, Tutorial
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Form, JavaScript, PHP, Serial Number, SOAP, Web Service
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Selective Flattening of Form Fields Using ABCpdf
Let’s assume you have a form with a lot of form fields, and somewhere during your forms workflow, you want to flatten some fields to “burn in” the information and convert it from an interactive field to static PDF content. … Continue reading
Batch-Import List Data into PDF Form
We’ve talked about batch importing data from an Excel document into a PDF form before: http://khkonsulting.com/2015/10/batch-import-excel-data-into-pdf-forms/ Back then, the idea was that we would have a spreadsheet with rows of data, and every row would be imported into a new … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, Tutorial
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, data, excel, Mail Merge, PDF, PDF Forms, Variable Data
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Using Custom Dynamic PDF Stamps in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader
There is sometimes a misconception about how a custom dynamic stamp works in the PDF environment. Here is a short video that demonstrates how such a stamp gets applied: As you can see, the custom dialog that collects the data … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, PDF
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, adobe reader, custom dynamic stamp, PDF, PDF stamp, pdf stamps
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More Missing Characters
A while ago I wrote about missing characters after merging PDF files. Since then, I’ve heard about a few more instances of missing characters and was able to debug one scenario. The following is a record of that. Unfortunately, there … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, Apple, PDF
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, bug, mac os x, Missing Characters, PDF
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Share Documents via Adobe’s Document Cloud
As many of you know, I am very active on the Adobe Acrobat User Community (http://www.acrobatusers.com). Oftentimes it’s necessary to actually see a PDF file in order to help somebody with a problem. There is no file sharing mechanism built … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, PDF, Tutorial
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Document Cloud, PDF, Sharing PDF Files
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Batch-Import Excel Data into PDF Forms
A while ago I documented for AcrobatUsers.com how to manually import an Excel data record into a PDF form. You can find this information here: Can I import data from an Excel spreadsheet to a fillable PDF Form? This is … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Tutorial
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, data, excel, Mail Merge, PDF, PDF Forms, Variable Data
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