September 21, 2013
by D. P. Story
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This article is about problems that questions that ask the student to simplify or factor of a mathematical expression. Without the aid of a computer algebra system, this is a tricky problem for exerquiz. Still, this article provides some ideas … Continue reading
August 27, 2013
by D. P. Story
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In an earlier post (On Requiring minimal time for a Quiz) techniques for requiring the respondent to spend a minimal amount of time on a quiz. In this demonstration file, we add to this be limiting the amount of time … Continue reading
May 14, 2013
by D. P. Story
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A user recently asked whether there is a way to require the student to review an exerquiz quiz for a minimal amount of time. That is, the student is not allowed to press the ‘End Quiz’ button until a specified … Continue reading
May 8, 2012
by D. P. Story
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This problem was posed to me by Dale S. He wanted to create a text field with a maximum character limit, but want to be able to countdown to the user the number of characters still available to enter into … Continue reading
July 13, 2011
by D. P. Story
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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 12, 2011
by D. P. Story
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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
by D. P. Story
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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
by D. P. Story
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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 9, 2011
by D. P. Story
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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 7, 2011
by D. P. Story
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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
July 7, 2011
by D. P. Story
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The article describes how to create simple animations using button appearances using AeB Pro. Download: btn_anime.pdf Source files: btn_anime.zip Related articles: \btnAnime: Animation using Form Field Buttons with AeB Pro ocgAnime: Animation using OCG (Layers) with AeB Pro Moving the … Continue reading
July 7, 2011
by D. P. Story
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Discusses the eforms (part of AeB) command \setLink and how to create all supported link appearances, link actions, such as goto actions, named actions, url actions, and jumping to destinations. Download: aeb_links.pdf