Kas Thomas
Kas discusses a range of issues relating to JavaScript for those who want to hit-the-ground-running.
Kas Thomas
Kas provides us with a code cut that helps to locate the page number when browsing through a PDF document.
Duff Johnson
'Until our content is finally corralled, authored, and maintained in the necessary technical harmony, we must deal with the archives of our existing work,' writes Duff Johnson of Document Solutions, Inc. "Yesterday's content ... now exists as purely peripheral value on dusty shelves or is languishing on unusable diskettes. Does this material have value in the new world of e-publishing?" Find out what Duff thinks in this article re-published with the author's permission from the June 2001 issue of Electronic Publishing magazine, the leading print resource on Acrobat PDF (several more timely articles in the same issue!).
Kurt Foss
Bruce Chizen, President and CEO of Adobe Systems, recently discussed with Planet PDF a range of related, Acrobat-centric topics. In the interview, he talks about the growing importance of Acrobat within the company's product line, the launch of Acrobat 5.0, his own Acrobat-dependent legacy, Adobe's new "Network Publishing" vision, its approach to ebooks, an upcoming release of a PDF Forms Fill-in product and the future release of a single, dual-purpose Reader.
Kas Thomas
Kas responds to a user's request for assistance in formatting user input in a PDF form.
Kas Thomas
Kas explains how to count occurences of a particular token in a given string with JavaScript. Don't read this one if you're tired.
Kas Thomas
Finding your dates too hard to handle? Kas has some valuable suggestions to make things easier.
Kas Thomas
Kas gives some sample JavaScript code for changing the colors of PDF form fields at runtime.
Kas Thomas
In JavaScript, you sometimes find yourself in a situation where you explicitly need to cast a variable to a Number or a String. Kas shows you how.
Dr. D. P. Story
Dr. D. P. Story, math wiz (professor) and bona fide PDF wizard, has updated a technique that he'd previously published on Planet PDF. The new, enhanced version of his article explains how to take advantage of some of the new features in Adobe Acrobat 5.0 -- specifically that FDF can now contain JavaScript code.
How to convert a folder full of Word documents to PDF.
Kas Thomas
Kas illustrates the "arity" function that is used for counting arguments in JavaScript.
Kas Thomas
Kas talks about using the undocumented JavaScript function popupmenu to return a Color (really an array of floating point values) rather than a String.
Kas Thomas
Kas tells you about the undocumented popUpMenu() function, which creates a popup-menu list of choices based on the argument list supplied. Take a peek, if you dare.
Kas Thomas
Demonstrates the use of the JavaScript response dialog for function testing.
