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Topic: Re: size of forms in document
Conf: (P-PDF) Beginners, Msg: 46093
From: prodok
Date: 5/29/2002 04:08 PM
Tim,
There is no real general formula for predicting the space used by a
blank form field. It depends a lot on the field itself, how it is
defined, and what odditional attributes you have assigned to it
(border, colors, formatting etc.).
A very rough rule of thumb says that it is between 500 and 1000 bytes.
I think that there is an implementation limit for the total number of
fields in a document. I think it is something like 32 k or 64 k.
However, there are practical limits, and I would not go considerably
higher than 1000 fields per page (in a project, I did a 2 page form
with 980 fields on one page, and 940 on the other one; as it has some
formatting scripts, it takes about 15 seconds to open on my medium
powerful machine).
There is the execMenuItem() method, which can also access any menu
item provided by a plug-in. So, the second question is not that crazy
at all...
Hope, this can help.
Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
Fax: +41 1 700 20 37
e-mail: mailto:max@prodok.com
http://www.prodok.com
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>Does any one know if there is a general formula for how much byte
>size blank form fields add to a file? Also is there a limit on the
>number of form fields on a page or document?
>
>2nd crazy question- Is is possible to access any methods/properties
>from plug-ins from javascript?
