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1 Introduction to Acrobat JavaScript Introduction This chapter introduces Adobe Acrobat JavaScript. The JavaScript development environment for Acrobat 6, which includes new debugging capabilities, is only supported on the Acrobat Pro "flavor" of Acrobat 6. This guide shows a variety of ways that you can use Acrobat JavaScript to implement solutions to your customer or company's needs. For further information and examples, see the Web sites and other resources listed in For More Information on page 10. Chapter Goals At the end of this chapter, you will be able to: ● Describe the difference between Acrobat JavaScript and standard, or HTML JavaScript. ● List what you can do with Acrobat JavaScript. ● Describe the Doc Object containment hierarchy and briefly state for what purpose the App, Doc, Console, Global, Util, Connection, and Statement objects are used. Contents Topics Overview What Is Acrobat JavaScript? What Can You Do with Acrobat JavaScript? Acrobat JavaScript Object Overview Overview Most people know Adobe Acrobat as a medium for exchanging and viewing electronic documents easily and reliably, independent of the environment in which they were created. However, Acrobat provides far more capabilities than a simple document viewer. You can enhance an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) document so that it contains fields to capture user-entered data as well as buttons to initiate user actions. This type of Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide 11

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Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide
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1
Introduction to Acrobat JavaScript
Introduction
This chapter introduces Adobe Acrobat JavaScript. The JavaScript development
environment for Acrobat 6, which includes new debugging capabilities, is only supported
on the Acrobat Pro “flavor” of Acrobat 6.
This guide shows a variety of ways that you can use Acrobat JavaScript to implement
solutions to your customer or company’s needs. For further information and examples, see
the Web sites and other resources listed in
For More Information
on
page 10
.
Chapter Goals
At the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
●
Describe the difference between Acrobat JavaScript and standard, or HTML JavaScript.
●
List what you can do with Acrobat JavaScript.
●
Describe the
Doc Object
containment hierarchy and briefly state for what purpose the
App
,
Doc
,
Console
,
Global
,
Util
,
Connection
, and
Statement
objects are used.
Contents
Overview
Most people know Adobe Acrobat as a medium for exchanging and viewing electronic
documents easily and reliably, independent of the environment in which they were
created. However, Acrobat provides far more capabilities than a simple document viewer.
You can enhance an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) document so that it contains
fields to capture user-entered data as well as buttons to initiate user actions. This type of
Topics
Overview
What Is Acrobat JavaScript?
What Can You Do with Acrobat JavaScript?
Acrobat JavaScript Object Overview