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Category Archives: Programming
Page Splitter – For The 3rd Time – Splitting Tri-Fold Brochures
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
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Clear Image Field in PDF Form With Acrobat’s JavaScript
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
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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
All About PDF Stamps
Putting “All About PDF Stamps” on the cover puts the bar pretty high when you write a book about PDF Stamps… But Thom Parker clears that bar without any problems! His book “All About PDF Stamps in Acrobat & Paperless … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, Books, JavaScript, PDF, Programming
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, adobe pdf, book, JavaScript, pdf stamps
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Prevent the Save Dialog when Printing to the Adobe PDF Printer
[ UPDATE: For use on a 64bit system, see Kevin Rappold’s comment below. ] This is from the category “Frequently Asked Questions” – this time how to programmatically specify an output filename when printing to the Adobe PDF printer. As … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, PDF, Programming
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Distiller, PDF, Programming, scripting, VBS
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The End is Here – of ADM that is
Adobe just released the Acrobat XI SDK, and as usual, there are a number of changes – new APIs, modified ones, and the final removal of ADM (that is the Adobe Dialog Manager). The release notes are here [PDF]. I’ve talked about this … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, PDF, Programming
Tagged acrobat plug-in, Acrobat SDK, adm, Adobe Acrobat, Programming
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The Trouble With the XREF Table
Have you ever tried to debug a problem with the XREF table in a PDF file? I’ve been debugging PDF problems for a long time, and every now and then I come across a file that has a corrupt XREF … Continue reading
Validating Field Contents
One of the questions I get asked again and again is how to validate a field value in an AcroForm with a custom validation script. Adobe provided a lot of infrastructure to do that with just a simple script. Let’s … Continue reading