Karl De Abrew
With Stephen King sending a second round of shock waves through the book publishing industry this week, we're re-purposing a column written initially for Adobe.com by Planet PDF's Karl De Abrew that reflects on King's first venture into the world of eBooks and PDF -- the record-setting release of "Riding the Bullet" a few months ago.
Karl De Abrew
With the recent signing of a new digital signatures law by U.S. President Bill Clinton, we're re-posting a "Pulp Free" column first written by Planet PDF's Karl De Abrew for Adobe.com -- a look at using using digital signatures in PDF documents.
Karl De Abrew
In a related "Pulp Free" column by De Abrew for Adobe.com, he offers guidance on using digital certificates and digital signatures with Microsoft Outlook email.
According to The Pfeiffer Report, a single PDF standard is no longer viable, given the range of diverse applications for which the technology is suited. It's time "for each market segment to push the implementation or version which makes sense," resulting in several solution-specific standards, the report concludes.
Adobe Acrobat allows you to utilise JavaScript within Acrobat Forms by defining an object model on top of JavaScript 1.2.
Kas Thomas
Perhaps you're already aware that in Acrobat 4.0 (and 4.05) there's an undocumented JavaScript method called popUpMenu(), a way to attach custom popup menus to mouse-down events in form fields. (If not, you know now!) But ScriptMeister Kas knows from recent experience that it's important to "Clean Up You Popups," as he details in his latest column.
Max Wyss and Makiko Itoh
A paper and Smart PDF solution can be more streamlined than one based on paper and HTML, according to our contributors, a tagteam of Acrobat/PDF gurus based in Switzerland. They also suggest in their "Practical Smart PDF" articles that a hybrid solution is often the best approach.
A simple plug-in example to count all the bookmarks in the active document. You can download the full source and a Reader enabled plug-in version.
A VB program that automatically converts Excel Charts to PDF Format.
How to add a link annotation to the current page in Acrobat.
Dave Wraight
The code and executable are not complete but developers may find parts of it useful.
Interfacing with e-mail from a PDF is a useful way of transporting both PDF and FDF files. This sample document shows how to do it via a URL and three different methods via JavaScript (mail message, mail document, mail FDF). The JavaScript methods are NOT present in Acrobat Reader.
VB code that will allow you to create PDF documents in batch using Acrobat 4's "Acrobat Distiller" printer.
Dave Wraight
The following JavaScript code can be added to a button, bookmark or even link. When the user activates the button / bookmark / link a popup menu will be displayed on screen listing the page numbers (in page blocks of 20).
Kas Thomas
Seems there is at least one undocumented (but live and ready to use) function lurking under PDF JavaScript's hood, that nobody outside of Adobe knows about.
