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Author Archives: Karl Heinz Kremer
Apply Standard PDF Form FIeld Formatting/Keystroke/Validation Events to Fields via JavaScript
For some options in Acrobat’s form editor, you can select multiple fields and then apply the same option to all selected fields. This works for example for the “read-only” flag, or the display options. It does however not work for … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Tutorial
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, calculation, formatting, JavaScript, keystroke, PDF Form, scripts, validation
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Security Envelope Templates (Still) Missing in Mac Version
Adobe Acrobat has had an interesting feature since at least Acrobat 8: A “Security Envelope” allows the user to pack any document into such an “envelope” and encrypt the contents. Only the recipient with the correct “key” can decrypt these … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, PDF, Tutorial
Tagged Acrobat Bug, Adobe Acrobat, Security Templates
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How to Count Radio Button Choices in Acrobat JavaScript
A question that comes up every now and then on either AcrobatUsers.com or in the Acrobat JavaScript Forum is about how to count how many radio buttons with a certain value were selected by a user. Let’s for example say … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Tutorial
Tagged adobe pdf, count radio buttons, forms, JavaScript, radiobuttons
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Too Personal for Mobile Link? How to Remove Files From Document Cloud’s Recent List
When you use any recent version of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, and you gave in to the continued ‘nagging’ to turn on “Mobile Link”, then all the files you open in Acrobat or Reader will get uploaded to Adobe’s … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, Tutorial
Tagged Acrobat DC, Cloud Storage, Document Cloud, Mobile Link, PDF, Recent
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Create Custom Commands in Adobe Acrobat DC Pro
Background In Acrobat XI and older, when you wanted to run e.g. a custom JavaScript, you had to create a folder level script and find the correct directory to install it, or create a custom Action using the Action Wizard, … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, Tutorial
Tagged "Acobat DC", Adobe Acrobat, Custom Commands, tutorial
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Acrobat DC is Here – You may want to wait with upgrading until you read this…
[Update: Adobe added a warning to the CC updater that informs the user that older versions of Acrobat will be removed, and a knowledge base article about this problem: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/acrobat-dc-uninstalls-acrobat-11.html ] As announced by Adobe a few weeks ago, they released Adobe Acrobat … Continue reading
Missing Characters After Merging or Inserting PDF Files? Here is a Potential Workaround
Have you ever tried to merge a few files and ended up with missing characters on some of your pages in the resulting PDF file? Here is a description of one of these instances – as a question posted on … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, PDF, Tutorial
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Font Problems, Merging PDF Files, Missing Characters, PDF
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“No Pages Selected To Print” Error
UPDATE: See Vishal’s comment in the comment section. Adobe is looking for help in debugging this problem. If you are running into this problem and want me to share your email address with Adobe, please get in touch with me … Continue reading
Save Your Acrobat.com Workspaces Files
Up until recently, there were two ways to save a document on Acrobat.com: The old “Workspaces” section The new “Files” section Adobe announced a while ago that the “Workspaces” service will be discontinued on Jan 6th 2015. Write access to … Continue reading
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