Tag Archives: Acrobat

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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Who is Hogging My File?

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

After working on your PDF file for a while, you are ready to save it back to the disk, but Acrobat greets you with an error message: “The document could not be saved. The file may be read-only, or another … Continue reading →

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Escape from Uninstaller Hell

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Disclaimer: This article demonstrates how to edit the Windows Registry. This is a dangerous thing to do. If you do not feel comfortable doing these kinds of system changes, please don’t proceed. If you do proceed, you are doing so … Continue reading →

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The Trouble With the XREF Table

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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Validating Field Contents

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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 →

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Acrobat JavaScripts – Where do they go?

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Karl Heinz Kremer

JavaScripts in Acrobat can either be attached to a document – for example to validate a form field – or they can be loaded directly into the application as a folder level script. It’s pretty straight forward to figure out … Continue reading →

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Best Way to Learn Acrobat Scripting

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Every now and then I come across the question “What is the best way to learn scripting for Adobe Acrobat? Are there any books or other resources averrable?”. After doing some research, I think I finally found the best resource … Continue reading →

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Is Your Acrobat Plug-in Still Using ADM?

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Karl Heinz Kremer

For a few years now Adobe has been telling 3rd party developers that the ADM (Adobe Dialog Manager) will be discontinued, and that existing plug-ins may have to be ported to something else. If I remember correctly, this started with … Continue reading →

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Developing Acrobat JavaScript on a MacBook

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Acrobat’s JavaScript is a great tool to extend the application, or to automate reoccurring tasks. There are several ways a JavaScript can be added to the application or a document (e.g. folder level scripts, validation scripts, event handling scripts, …), … Continue reading →

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Nuance PDF Reader

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Nuance (the people behind OmniPage and Dragon Naturally Speaking and a bunch of other things) release a competitor to the free Adobe Reader – the free Nuance PDF Reader (http://www.nuance.com/imaging/products/pdf-reader.asp). The feature list looks very promising: Fill and save PDF … Continue reading →

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