Developing Acrobat Applications Using JavaScript Js Developer Guide

• Contents
• List of Examples
• Preface
  • What’s in this guide?
  • Who should read this guide?
  • About the sample scripts
  • Related documentation
• Introduction
  • Overview
  • Reading the JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference
  • Object summary
    • app
    • Doc
    • dbg
    • console
    • global
    • util
    • dialog
    • security
    • SOAP
    • search
    • ADBC
    • event
  • JavaScript applications
• Tools
  • Using the JavaScript Debugger console
    • Opening the console
    • Executing JavaScript
    • Formatting code
    • Enabling JavaScript
    • Debugging with the JavaScript Console
  • Using a JavaScript editor
  • Specifying the default JavaScript editor
  • Using an external editor
    • Additional editor capabilities
    • Specifying additional capabilities to your editor
    • Saving and closing a file with a syntax error
  • Using the Debugger with Adobe Reader
  • Enabling the JavaScript Debugger
  • JavaScript Debugger
    • Main groups of controls
    • Debugger View windows
    • Debugger buttons
    • Debugger Scripts window
    • Call Stack list
    • Inspect details window
      • Coding styles and breakpoints
      • Listing breakpoints
      • Using conditional breakpoints
    • Starting the Debugger
    • Final notes
• JavaScript Contexts in Acrobat
  • The concept of a JavaScript event
  • About contexts
    • Folder level
    • Document level
    • Page level
    • Field level
    • Batch level
  • Privileged versus non-privileged context
    • Executing privileged methods in a non-privileged context
    • Executing privileged methods through the menu
    • Executing privileged methods in a certified document
• Creating and Modifying PDF Documents
  • Creating and modifying PDF files
    • Combining PDF documents
    • Combining and extracting files
    • Creating file attachments
    • Cropping and rotating pages
      • Cropping pages
      • Rotating pages
    • Extracting, moving, deleting, replacing, and copying pages
    • Adding watermarks and backgrounds
  • Converting PDF documents to XML format
• Print Production
  • Setting print options
  • Printing PDF documents
    • Silent printing
    • Printing comments and forms
    • Booklet printing
    • Setting advanced print options
      • Specifying output settings
      • Specifying marks and bleeds
      • Setting PostScript options
      • Setting font options
• Using JavaScript in Forms
  • Forms essentials
    • About PDF forms
      • Elements of Acrobat forms
      • Guidelines for creating a new form
    • Creating Acrobat form fields
    • Setting Acrobat form field properties
      • Field properties
      • Button fields
      • Check box fields
      • Combo box fields
      • List box fields
      • Radio button fields
      • Signature fields
      • Text fields
      • Validation scripts
      • Calculation script
  • Task-based topics
    • Highlighting required form fields
    • Making a form fillable
    • Setting the hierarchy of form fields
    • Creating forms
      • Positioning form fields
      • Duplicating form fields
      • Creating multiple form fields
    • Defining the tabbing order
    • Defining form field calculation order
    • Making PDF forms web-ready
      • Creating a submit button
      • Creating a reset form button
      • Defining CGI export values
    • Importing and exporting form data
    • Emailing completed forms
    • Use date objects
    • Date arithmetic
    • Defining global variables in JavaScript
      • Enable the global object security policy
      • Setting and getting a global variable
      • Deleting global variables
      • Making global variables persistent
      • Querying an Acrobat form field value in another open form
      • Global object security policy
    • Intercepting keystrokes in an Acrobat form
    • Constructing custom colors
    • Prompting the user for a response
    • Fetching an URL from JavaScript
    • Creating special rollover effects
  • Introduction to XML forms architecture (XFA)
    • Enabling dynamic layout and rendering
    • Growable form fields
    • Variable-size rows and tables
    • Multiple customized forms within a form based on user input
    • Handling image data
    • Dynamic tooltips
    • XFA-specific JavaScript methods
    • JavaScript methods not enabled in XML Forms
    • ADO support for Windows
    • Detecting XML forms and earlier form types
    • Saving form data as XML or XML Data Package (XDP)
    • Global submit
  • Making forms accessible
    • Text-to-speech
    • Tagging annotations
    • Document metadata
    • Short description
    • Setting tab order
    • Reading order
  • Using JavaScript to secure forms
• Review, Markup, and Approval
  • Working with comments using JavaScript
    • Annotation types
    • Getting annotation data
    • Adding comments with JavaScript
    • Setting comment properties
  • Online collaboration essentials
    • Reviewing documents with additional usage rights
    • Emailing PDF documents
    • JavaScript-based collaboration driver
    • Spell-checking in comments and forms
      • Setting spelling preferences
      • Adding words to a dictionary
    • Approval
  • Managing comments
    • Selecting, moving, and deleting comments
    • Using the comments list
      • Changing the status of comments
      • Changing the appearance of comments
    • Sorting comments
      • Showing and hiding comments
    • Exporting and importing comments
    • Aggregating comments for use in Excel
    • Comparing comments in two PDF documents
    • Extracting comments in a batch process
  • Approving documents using stamps (Japanese workflows)
    • Setting up a Hanko approval workflow
    • Participating in a Hanko approval workflow
      • Installing and customizing Hanko stamps
      • Creating custom Inkan stamps
      • Deleting custom stamps
• Working with Digital Media in PDF Documents
  • Media players: control, settings, renditions, and events
    • Accessing a list of active players
    • Specifying playback settings
  • Monitors
  • Integrating media into documents
    • Controlling multimedia through a rendition action
    • Controlling multimedia with a Run a JavaScript action
    • Adding and editing renditions
  • Setting multimedia preferences
• Modifying the User Interface
  • Adding toolbar buttons and menu items
  • Adding navigation to PDF documents
    • Thumbnails
      • Creating page thumbnails
      • Adding page actions with page thumbnails
    • Bookmarks
      • Creating bookmarks
      • Managing bookmarks
      • Creating a bookmark hierarchy
    • Links
      • Adding and removing web links from text
      • Adding and removing links
      • Defining the appearance of a link
      • Opening links
      • Opening file attachments
      • Using destinations
    • Using actions for special effects
    • Highlighting form fields and navigational components
    • Setting up a presentation
      • Defining the initial view in full screen view
      • Defining an initial view
    • Numbering pages
    • Creating buttons
  • Working with PDF layers
    • Navigating with layers
    • Editing the properties of PDF layers
    • Reordering layers
• Acrobat Templates
  • The role of templates in PDF form architecture
  • Spawning templates
    • Dynamic form field generation
    • Dynamic page generation
    • Template syntax and usage
• Search and Index Essentials
  • Searching for text in PDF documents
    • Finding words in an PDF document
      • Using advanced search options
    • Searching across multiple PDF documents
      • Searching all PDF files in a specific location
      • Using advanced search options for multiple document searches
      • Searching PDF index files
      • Using Boolean queries
  • Indexing multiple PDF documents
    • Creating, updating, or rebuilding indexes
  • Searching metadata
• Security
  • Security essentials
    • Methods for adding security to PDF documents
      • Passwords and restrictions
      • Certifying documents
      • Encrypting files using certificates
      • Security policies
      • Secure forms
  • Digitally signing PDF documents
    • Signing a PDF document
    • The security handler object
      • The SignatureInfo object
      • Applying the signature
      • Clearing a digital signature from a signature field
    • Getting signature information from another user
    • Removing signatures
    • Certifying a document
    • Validating signatures
    • Setting digital signature properties with seed values
  • Adding security to PDF documents
    • Adding passwords and setting security options
    • Adding usage rights to a document
    • Encrypting PDF files for a list of recipients
    • Encrypting PDF files using security policies
    • Adding security to document attachments
  • Digital IDs and certification methods
    • Digital IDs
      • About digital ID providers
      • Creating a digital ID (default certificate security)
      • Using digital IDs (default certificate security)
      • Managing digital IDs (Windows certificate security)
    • Managing digital ID certificates
      • Sharing digital ID certificates
      • Building a list of trusted identities
      • Checking information on certificates
  • Task based topics
    • Disallowing changes in scripts
    • Hiding scripts
• Rights-Enabled PDF Files
  • Additional usage rights
  • LiveCycle Reader Extensions
  • Writing JavaScript for Adobe Reader
  • Enabling collaboration
• Interacting with Databases
  • About ADBC
  • Establishing an ADBC connection
  • Executing SQL statements
• SOAP and Web Services
  • Using SOAP and web services
    • Using a WSDL proxy to invoke a web service
    • Synchronous and asynchronous information exchange
      • Establishing a synchronous connection
      • Asynchronous web service calls
    • Using document/literal encoding
    • Exchanging file attachments and binary data
    • Converting between string and readstream information
    • Accessing SOAP version information
    • Accessing SOAP header information
    • Authentication
    • Error handling
  • DNS service discovery
  • Managing XML-based information
  • Workflow applications
• Interfacing with 3D JavaScript
  • Basic concepts
  • Getting the Annot3D object of the 3D annotation
    • Annot3D properties
    • Acquiring the JavaScript 3D engine
  • Using the default script of a 3D annotation
  • Initializing upon activation
• Index