Add ACR2 to my courses Adobe Acrobat JavaScript (3 days - £895, plus VAT)

Look for available dates for this training course

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.

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

Back to top

Macresource Desktop Publishing (DTP) and Graphics Training Courses
Acrobat training | Coreldraw training |  Corel PhotoPaint training | DTP training |  Fireworks training 
Freehand training |  Illustrator training  | Indesign training | Pagemaker training
Photoshop training | Prepress training | Quarkxpress training | XML DTP training
Free QuarkXPress tutorials | London computer training room hire

© Copyright, Macresource 2011