Category Archives: JavaScript

Page Splitter – For The 3rd Time – Splitting Tri-Fold Brochures

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Karl Heinz Kremer

We’ve covered page splitting before, see these two articles for some background information: Splitting PDF Pages Page Splitter Redux Both these posts deal with splitting a page into halfs, this tine we can to look at how to split a … Continue reading →

Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, Programming, Tutorial | Tagged Actions, Adobe Acrobat, Custom Commands, JavaScript, Page Splitting, Tri-Fold Brochure | 3 Comments

Clear Image Field in PDF Form With Acrobat’s JavaScript

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Karl Heinz Kremer

You’ve probably heard by now that the latest release of the Adobe Acrobat DC subscription version comes with a couple of new form field types (see here for more information). Image fields are not new, but they are now much … Continue reading →

Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, Programming, Tutorial | Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Form, Image Field, JavaScript | 6 Comments

Rotate PDF Fields in Adobe Acrobat Using JavaScript

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Have you tried to rotate a field in a PDF form after it was created in Acrobat? If so, you may have scratched your head a bit. Before we get to the how, let’s first talk about the why: When … Continue reading →

Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Tutorial | 13 Comments

Learning to Program JavaScript for Adobe Acrobat

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 | 2 Comments

Getting a Serial Number Into a Form Using SOAP

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, Tutorial | Tagged Adobe Acrobat, data, excel, Mail Merge, PDF, PDF Forms, Variable Data | 21 Comments

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 →

Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Tutorial | Tagged Adobe Acrobat, data, excel, Mail Merge, PDF, PDF Forms, Variable Data | 231 Comments

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 →

Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Programming, Tutorial | Tagged Acrobat DC, Adobe Acrobat, Attachments, Launch Attachment, MS Word, PDF, Tool Search | 31 Comments

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 →

Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Tutorial | Tagged Adobe Acrobat, calculation, formatting, JavaScript, keystroke, PDF Form, scripts, validation | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Tutorial | Tagged adobe pdf, count radio buttons, forms, JavaScript, radiobuttons | 19 Comments