Category Archives: Tutorial

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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Create Custom Commands in Adobe Acrobat DC Pro

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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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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Convert Radio Button Groups to Checkbox Groups in PDF Forms

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

If you’ve worked with PDF forms, you are probably familiar with radio buttons: There is one problem with radio buttons: When you have a selection that also includes “non of the above”, you have to create a separate option for … Continue reading →

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Floating Text on PDF Documents

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Have you ever thought that it would be nice to add some “floating text” to a PDF document that can be shown and hidden based on where the user’s mouse cursor is? This is useful, for example, if you want … Continue reading →

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