Adobe Acrobat Cookbook

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• How do I change the "Email Submit" button so it will send the entire PDF form?
  • Thom Parker 
  •   November 20, 2009
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  Problem

  The standard "Email Submit" button in LiveCycle Designer only submits data as XML. And of course many users would like to submit the entire PDF, and modify other submission options.

  Solution

  There are at least 3 different ways to perform a submit action on a LiveCycle form. The Email Submit button is probably the worst, but the XML for this button can be easily modified so that it sends the entire PDF. A better solution is to use a regular form button. It's not widely known, but the regular button provides a greater range of submit options than the email button. And for the greatest flexibility the submit can be performed with JavaScript.

• Printing a PDF document from AIR without displaying it or the control bar (using PDF cross-scripting)
  • Adrian Parr 
  •   October 6, 2009
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  Problem

  You want to print a PDF file directly from AIR without displaying it to the user and using your own custom button (not the default PDF control bar).

  Solution

  Open the PDF document you want to print in Adobe Acrobat Pro. Add the JavaScript code to your document and save it. Create an HTML page that contains a JavaScript function and embed the PDF document. In your Flash (or Flex) file add a button that prompts the user to print the document. Add the ActionScript 3.0 code that communicates with the HTML page. Publish your AIR file (making sure you include the HTML and PDF files). Test your AIR app.

• Enforcing Required Fields
  • Joel Geraci 
  •   October 28, 2009
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  Problem

  Setting a form field to “Required” in the “General Properties” tab forces the user to fill in the selected form field. But there are cases when you need the user to fill out a particular field before moving on to the rest of the form. You could use JavaScript to dynamically enable or disable parts of the form but that can be cumbersome to keep track of. The ideal situation would be to, where appropriate, force the user to enter data into a required field before moving to another field.

  Solution

  Add the following code to the “On Blur” action of the field you want to be required.

• Using LiveCycle Forms in Acrobat and Reader
  • Niall O'Donovan 
  •   November 14, 2009
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  Problem

  After you develop a form in LiveCycle, the users can have very different experiences with the form depending on the software they are using and if / how the form has been Reader Enabled. The various options that are available or disabled can be confusing.

  Solution

  This PDF sets out the four options that a developer should consider before you deploy the form. In essence you are looking at the user and the likelihood that they only have Reader and not the full Acrobat. If this is the case then they may not be able to use all of the features that you built into the form.

• Printing a specific page range via a button in Acrobat 9
  • Bobby_Johnson_ 
  •   October 30, 2010
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  Problem

  I'm trying to add script to a button in an interactive PDF that will print a page range but the scripts I've found only open a print dialog box that still requires the user to specify the page range. I found this script below on the Adobe site, but it doesn't work, the document prints all pages. this.print({ bUI: false, bSilent: true, bShrinkToFit: true, nStart: 1, nEnd: 10 }); Help? Thanks!

  Solution

  If your document have 10 pages, to print from page 2 to 5 use the command as this.print({ bUI: false, bSilent: true, bShrinkToFit: true, nStart: 1, nEnd: 4 })