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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
Demonstrates the use of the JavaScript response dialog for function testing.
Kas Thomas
When it's time to pop the question (in a JavaScript response dialog), Kas shows you how.
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.
David Zwang
In his article "Automating Workflows," David Zwang explores the what, how and why of process automation, including a look at some basic automation tools and offering insights on ways to facilitate new workflows.
Bernd Zipper of Germany chats with Stephan Jaeggi of Switzerland about his long experience working with PDF in Prepress, and in particular about the "opportunities and dangers" Jaeggi sees for those who attempt to build a home-grown PDF workflow. His advice: "You don't have to switch to a PDF workflow all at once ... take it step by step. Run the PDF workflow in parallel with your existing PostScript workflow."
March 05, 2001
Kas Thomas
Kas briefly points out the various usages of JavaScript in PDF applications.
Kas Thomas
Anything that provides contextual help to a form user at runtime is a big win for all concerned. Find out how to set and change Tool Tips on-the-fly.
Kas Thomas
PDF is one of the most brittle and unforgiving formats I've ever worked with, in the sense that if you introduce even one stray byte into the middle of a file, you stand a 99% chance of wrecking the reading frame for the whole file (kind of like a frameshift error in DNA giving rise to "nonsense proteins"), totally breaking the world.
Kas Thomas
A custom keystroke filter to emulate one of those Department-of-Motor-Vehicle sort of forms where you have a little square box for every letter of your name, and you can fit only one character to a box.
Kas Thomas
Kas has been trying to find a way to store functions as persistent globals, so that he can come back to them, from ANY future PDF form that a reader downloads.
Kas Thomas
If you've ever wanted to slap yourself for doing something the stupid way, then you'll enjoy Kas' latest foray into the world of numerical and alphabetic sorting techniques. Take a peek.
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