Enhancing Adobe Acrobat Forms with JavaScript

Take your PDF forms to the next level! In this book, you’ll learn various ways to further improve your PDF forms using simple JavaScript coding. You’ll also discover how a few lines of code can speed up your workflow when working with multiple PDFs in Action Wizard.

Enhancing Adobe Acrobat Forms with JavaScript covers up-to-date, real working examples that you can easily download and practice with and edit to suit your own projects. This book also shows workarounds and solutions to various form issues you might encounter. Feel empowered by it and improve your PDF documents! 

JavaScript has been a part of Adobe Acrobat for many versions. However, few people use its features and focus mainly on using basic form properties, never delving deeper into Acrobat’s full capabilities. While information on the web can be helpful, if you don’t know enough about how to use JavaScript in Acrobat you will be left with poor results. JavaScript can be difficult to learn,but it does not need to be scary. This book explains in simple steps for beginner to intermediate level so that you can take full advantage of Acrobat’s capabilities for your own projects.

What You Will Learn

• Learn simplified field notation and basic JavaScript for Acrobat

• Work with buttons that can be used for navigation


• Improve form navigation and printing of forms


• Add various types of alerts and custom validations to improve client-entered-data

• Learn the basics of how to prepare a form for e-signing