Extending acrobat forms with JavaScript

A simple way to add power to forms

John Deubert

280 pages, parution le 16/05/2003

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Résumé

Do you want more powerful, more professional Acrobat forms? Do you want to harness the power of scripts without having to become a scripter?

Sure, you can use Adobe Acrobat to create a great-looking form, but you might not know that a few simple JavaScript techniques can make your forms perform magic. JavaScript, a powerful yet simple scripting language, can automate and enhance your forms, making them work harder and smarter. Your forms can calculate order totals, display roll-over help, validate and automatically format user input, retrieve and analyze information from databases, and more.

Best of all, you don't have to learn everything about scripts to take advantage of their power. This book offers truly practical, ready-to-use scripts that you can apply immediately to your forms to boost their performance and flexibility.

Author John Deubert brings an easy, informative style to teaching scripting without fear. Before you know it, you'll be building the most useful functions into your forms, enabling them to:

Automatically fill in form data
Perform calculations
Validate form field contents
Display roll-over text
Generate reports

Contents

Introduction
Welcome to JavaScript !
Page and Document JavaScripts
Form Field Highlighting
Checking Acrobat Version
Calculating Form Fields
Auto-Entering Form Data
Roll-Over Help
Dynamic Form Fields
Dynamic Controls with Templates
Keystroke Checking
Field Validation
Formatting Text Fields
Alerts and Dialog Boxes
JavaScript Functions
Creating Pop-up Menus
Interacting with Databases
Reading and Writing a Database
Generating Reports
Where Now?

Appendices
Index

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Adobe Press
Auteur(s)	John Deubert
Parution	16/05/2003
Nb. de pages	280
Format	17,7 x 22,7
Couverture	Broché
Poids	425g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780321172389
ISBN13	978-0-321-17238-9