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Tag Archives: JavaScript
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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Learning to Program JavaScript for Adobe Acrobat
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
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Mark Selected Options with Circles in PDF Forms
I assume you’ve filled out a paper form with a pen, and circled one or more of the options presented on the form. Can this be done in a PDF form as well? To create such a form, we cannot … Continue reading
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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Apply Standard PDF Form FIeld Formatting/Keystroke/Validation Events to Fields via JavaScript
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
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How to Count Radio Button Choices in Acrobat JavaScript
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
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Document Level Scripts With Acrobat Standard
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
Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Standard, JavaScript
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Convert Radio Button Groups to Checkbox Groups in PDF Forms
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
Posted in Acrobat, JavaScript, PDF, Tutorial
Tagged Acrobat, Checkbox, JavaScript, PDF, PDF Form, Radio Button
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Page Splitter Redux
One of my more popular blog posts was about splitting PDF pages. I wrote that post five years ago and I am still getting regular feedback and questions. The original script was written for Acrobat 9, and used the “Documents” … Continue reading