Category Archives: Acrobat

Batch-Import List Data into PDF Form

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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Using Custom Dynamic PDF Stamps in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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More Missing Characters

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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Share Documents via Adobe’s Document Cloud

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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Batch-Import Excel Data into PDF Forms

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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How to Open a Document Attached to a PDF File

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Have you ever wanted to attach a document (e.g. a MS Word file) to a PDF document, and give the user the ability to launch that file with just a click on a button? Usually, you have to save the … Continue reading →

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Apply Standard PDF Form FIeld Formatting/Keystroke/Validation Events to Fields via JavaScript

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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Security Envelope Templates (Still) Missing in Mac Version

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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How to Count Radio Button Choices in Acrobat JavaScript

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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Too Personal for Mobile Link? How to Remove Files From Document Cloud’s Recent List

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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