A long thread begins on the topic of processing Acrobat form fields. We discern two basic cases, external processing and internal processing, and discuss some of the basics. Download: pdfblog_12.pdf
July 13, 2011
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July 12, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 2: Text Fields
This article covers the topic of getting and setting the values of a text field and a rich text field. It also catalogs the JavaScript properties and their user interface counterparts. Download: pdfblog_13.pdf
July 11, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 3: Button Fields, the Push button
The article discusses push buttons with an emphasis on icons appearances. Catalogs the JavaScript properties and their user interface counterparts. Download: pdfblog_14.pdf
July 11, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 4: Button Fields, the Check Box
This article continues the discussion on Acrobat forms with check boxes. Also included in this blog is a discussion of field naming conventions, and widgets. Techniques for changing properties of individual widgets are also covered. Download: pdfblog_15.pdf
July 10, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 5: Button Fields, the Radio Button Field
This continues the discussion on Acrobat forms with radio button fields. We learn how to get and set a radio button field; how to check and clear a radio button field; and how to change the appearance of of a … Continue reading
July 9, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 6: Choice Fields, the List Box
A list box is a rectangular region what contains a scrollable list of several text items, one or more of which may be selected as the field value. A vertical scroll bar is available when the height of the list … Continue reading
July 8, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 7: Choice Fields, the Combo Box
The combo box is very much like the list box (AcroTEX Blog #17), both are lists of text items. The combo box features a drop-down list of items, hence, takes up less real estate than the list box, and, unlike … Continue reading
July 7, 2011
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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript, External Processing of a Field, Part 8: Processing Collections of Fields
This discusses techniques of processing collections of form fields. These methods are illustrated for a short sample survey, server-side scripts are provided. Download: pdfblog_19.pdf