Preface
How To Use This Guide
Purpose and Scope
The purpose of this guide is to:
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Describe how you can use the Acrobat JavaScript language as the primary vehicle with
which to develop and deploy Acrobat workflow solutions.
Provide you with easily understood, detailed information and examples of the Acrobat
JavaScript scripting features.
Provide you with references to other resources where you can learn more about Acrobat
JavaScript and related technologies.
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After reading this guide and completing the exercises, you should be equipped to start
using Acrobat JavaScript. During the development process, you will find that the
descriptions and examples in this guide will provide you with enough direction and
background to enable you to successfully complete your projects.
Assumptions
This guide assumes that you are familiar with the non-scripting elements of the Acrobat 7
user interface that are described in Acrobat’s accompanying online help documentation. To
work through the exercises in this guide, you will need to use Acrobat 7 Professional.
How To Use This Guide
This guide includes exercises that give you an opportunity to work directly with Acrobat
JavaScript. If you plan to practice any of the exercises, do the following:
1.
Be sure that you have Acrobat Professional installed on your Windows
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or Macintosh
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workstation. The exercises are designed to work on Windows and Macintosh versions of
Acrobat, unless otherwise noted.
2.
Create and use the same directory on your machine for all the JavaScript exercises you
would like to try. You will use this directory to store the PDF documents and other files
used in the exercises.
3.
The Acrobat SDK contains a set of.zip files you will need to work through the
exercises. You should extract the contents of these files to your local directory.
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