Overview

Suitable for delegates with experience of using Adobe Acrobat Professional who are familiar with both the basic and advanced features of the program. The course provides an introduction to the JavaScript language and shows delegates how to add JavaScript to PDF files to control bookmarks, buttons and links; how to create custom dialogs, control forms and manipulate document pages. (No previous JavaScript experience is necessary.)

Course Outline

Getting started

Overview of Acrobat JavaScript features

PDF files and JavaScript, The Acrobat JavaScript API, Acrobat�s implementation of Javascript, Acrobat objects, Using the JavaScript Editor, Using and external JavaScript editor, JavaScript essentials

Using comments

Using variables, Using code blocks, Defining functions, Calling functions, Passing parameters, Looping structures, Conditional statements, Writing scripts

Using Javascript for navigation

Obtaining field values, Setting field values, Showing and hiding fields, Calculating field values, Making field values conditional, Working with forms

Providing help via scripts

Changing field in response to user actions, Creating form fields via scripts, Creating text fields, Creating check boxes, Creating combo boxes, Setting field attributes, Working with PDF documents

Creating PDF files

Combining documents, Manipulating PDF pages, Numbering pages, Navigation

Creating bookmarks

Creating links, Creating buttons, Windows and dialogs

Display alert boxes

Giving feedback to users, Requesting user information, Database interaction

The ADBC object

The connection object, The statement object, Executing SQL statements, Writing to a database, reading from a dataabase, Using Dreamweaver with Acrobat, Merging a form with a data source, Debugging and error handling

Enabling the JavaScript debugger

Starting the debugger, Setting breakpoints, Setting conditional breakpoints, Using the Call Stack list, Using the Inspect Details window, Anticipating errors, Using try/catch statements, Creating error handling functions