Category Archives: PDF

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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Missing Characters After Merging or Inserting PDF Files? Here is a Potential Workaround

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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“No Pages Selected To Print” Error

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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Save Your Acrobat.com Workspaces Files

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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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Document Level Scripts With Acrobat Standard

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

If you are using Adobe Acrobat Standard, you’ve probably noticed that you cannot add document level scripts to PDF documents. This is a limitation of the user interface, Acrobat Standard can actually add such scripts (and document actions), but it … Continue reading →

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