Character counting (count down) in Acrobat

I have a PDF file with text fields that is going to be used by some of our writers and integrated into presentation decks across multiple programs. We have a lot of it working well and I've been able to piece some bits of code together here and there but I'm no programmer. Where I've hit a roadblock is with adding a visual character counter to the file.
The file is set up to reflect an actual printed piece where there are limitations on line counts and characters per line. The line counts we aren't as concerned with but having a counter display how many characters you've typed to a line is important. I hope this makes sense. So basically we have one area where you can have a total of 10 lines and 30 characters (including spaces) on each line for a total of 300 characters. What would be great for us is if the text field could have a counter pop up showing something stating that the writer has entered "10 out of 30" characters for the particular line they're on.
Is this a simple fix or something where I could be pointed somewhere to put a script togeteher? I've tried for a few days now and frankly this is like launching a missle into space for me. I'd greatly appreciate any help/insight you could offer and would be glad to share my expertise on any design or experience issues you may be having.

Those are all great ideas Max and certainly stuff we can consider for building on this.
The reason we need to block the characters after a certain count is due to a system this will be entered into. Our client will be copying and pasting the blocks of text into a technology platform that will then print the info. We were given a specific set of instructions for how many characters and lines the printed piece could hold.
The fun part is that before this goes into production it has to first be presented several times in different presentation decks (some integrated into Powerpoint, others just PDFs). We've tried similar exercises in the past with Word and other programs with not a lot of satisfaction from our client. So, no pun intended, but Acrobat offered the most portable file format to accomplish our needs.
Though the original code posted above doesn't exactly solve our problem it's a great start for us and gives us somethign to build off of.
This is a simple one I think. What's the command to add text to a field? So if I wanted to add the character "\n" once the text was full. I guess that would be something like (just a note, not real code)…
var hardreturn = \n;
if (max == 25) {
addText.value = hardreturn;
(sorry a million times for my horrible programming skills)
Thanks for everyone's input thus far. This is a great and informative discussion.
Message was edited by: b.whitham

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news:[email protected]...
> Hey all, i have come to this fourm a few times and every
time i posted
> help i
> got it and i got the right help to. So here i am back
again. Now here my
> problem. i made this count down for a certain event.
(yes i got help from
> someone) and it works fine i made all the images it
works great,,,so i
> though
> then i thought id experament. So i changed my computers
time zone and
> guess
> what. The Time changed on the count down. Can i make my
count down'er',
> count
> down from a specific time zone so it will count down and
be the same for
> everyone? so no matter what time zone you have it will
ONLY be for a
> certain
> type of time zone? Heres my Count down so far;
>
>
http://snro.ifastnet.com/wipe.html
>
> And heres the script i have for my count down. Can
someone give me a
> better
> code, so it will keep my counter the exact same just
make it count down
> from
> only 1 specific Time zone? (AS below)
>
>
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>
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> thisYear = currentDate.getFullYear();
>
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