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Acrobat JavaScript Overview
What Can You Do with Acrobat JavaScript?
What Can You Do with Acrobat JavaScript?
Acrobat JavaScript enables you to do a wide variety of things within Acrobat and Adobe
Reader, and within PDF documents. Acrobat JavaScript can be used to aid in the following
workflows:
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Creating PDF documents
– Create new PDF files
– Control the appearance and behavior of PDF files
– Convert PDF files to XML format
– Create and spawn templates
– Attach files to PDF documents
Creating Acrobat forms
– Create, modify, and fill in dynamically changing, interactive forms
– Import and export form, attachment, and image data
– Save form data in XML, XDP, or Microsoft Excel
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format
– Email completed forms
– Make forms accessible to visually impaired users
– Make forms Web-ready
– Migrate legacy forms to dynamic XFA
– Secure forms
Facilitating review, markup, and approval
– Setting comment repository preferences
– Creating and managing comments
– Approving documents using stamps
Integrating digital media into documents
– Controlling and managing media players and monitors
– Adding movie and sound clips
– Adding and managing renditions
– Setting multimedia preferences
Modifying the user interface
– Using Adobe Dialog Manager (ADM)
– Adding navigation to PDF documents
– Managing PDF layers
– Managing print production
Searching and indexing of documents and document metadata
– Perform searches for text in one or more documents
– Create, update, rebuild, and purge indexes
– Search document metadata
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Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide