Documentation for Acrobat X Javascript?

Where is documentation for Javascript in Acrobat X? The help file mentions:
"For more information, see the JavaScript™ for Acrobat® API Reference on www.adobe.com/go/learn_acr_javascript_en (PDF, English only).", but the linked page does not contain any information for Acrobat X.

I do not think there have been any changes to Acrobat JavaScript in Acrobat X, so all the documentation for Acrobat 9 should work. There is an SDK for Acrobat X Portfolios that might have some new JS objects.
I still reference the version 8 reference and the version 5 reference.

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Javascript for Acrobat XI

Hello everyone.
Using the creative cloud I just upgraded from Acrobat 8 to Acronbat XI. I cannot find the Javascript documentation for that version of Acrobat, nor can I find the SDK for that version of Acrobat. I was able to find the Acrobat 8.0 Javascript documentation, but that's about the latest I can find. Is that the latest version?
TIA!
John

Here is the link to the documentation for Acrobat JavaScript versions 8 on.
Here is the link to MDN JavaScript documentation and other resources. JavaScript Guide & JavaScript Reference.
The material in the Acrobat SDK is not dynamic while the Acrobat JavaScript for version 9 and version X are both dynamic and can easily be updated by Adobe.

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Where do I find documentation for APEX provided javascript functions such as addRow();?
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..ahh, but ADBC wasn't removed from the documentation. It was removed from *some* of the documentation.
There's still reams of stuff in the current build of the SDK docs which haven't been updated since A9.1, but part of the fun is to learn which bits are wrong. Think of it as a test of intuition.

Documentation for the Acrobat Document Object Model

Hello
I'm trying to move my first steps in this field, I hope you can bear with my naive questions.
I'm trying to find the documentation for the Acrobat Document Object Model. To my surprise a search in the forum's archives was unsuccessful.
I remember downloading out of curiosity a few PDFs from Adobe about their implementation of JavaScript in Acrobat, one precisely concerning ADOM (but I could be wrong as it was a few years ago and I'm getting old): are those documents a thing of the past?
Thank you very much.
Giordano

Have a look here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html
The link there is for the version 9 reference, which is usually good enough,
but if you want the latest one (in PDF form), you can find it inside the
Acrobat X SDK package, here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/sdk/eula.html

XML format for Acrobat JavaScript

Hi,
This is my first posting to any Adobe forum, so please bear with me...
I'm interested in the XML format for Acrobat JavaScript. I'll be using an external editor (UltraEdit). When I do (in Acrobat 8) Advanced-->Document Processing-->Edit All JavaScripts, UltraEdit starts off with this:
//-----------------Do not edit the XML tags--------------------
Interesting, but not very useful. If I look at some existing PDF files containing JavaScript, I see things like:
//-----------------Do not edit the XML tags--------------------
//<Document-Level>
//<ACRO_source>DocOpen</ACRO_source>
//<ACRO_script>
/*********** belongs to: Document-Level:DocOpen ***********/
OK, this is better. In fact, if I look at enough existing PDF files containing JavaScript, I could probably figure out the XML format by myself, including the XML format of tags like <Page-Actions>, <AcroForm>, etc. However, it would be far easier to get the specification of the JavaScript XML format -- for example, what is the format of the text following the "belongs to:" string within the various types of XML tags?
I *presume* this is documented somewhere but I couldn't find it. If someone has the Acrobat JavaScript XML format specification, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave
P.S. Another possible approach would be to create JavaScripts myself using Advanced-->Document Processing-->Document JavaScripts, and then see what XML is created based on the code I enter into the GUI, e.g. form code, functions, etc. This also seems somewhat inefficient, presuming again that the JavaScript XML format is already documented.

Thanks for the additional information.
I played with JavaScript some more, using my preferred editor, UltraEdit, which I attached to Acrobat. I thought I would be able to take a JavaScript program from one PDF file (source file) and do a copy & paste into another PDF file (destination file). While I can do the paste (again, via UltraEdit) into the destination file and can do an UltraEdit Save, when I go back into UltraEdit via Advanced --> Document Processing --> Edit All JavaScripts, the JavaScript I pasted from the source file to the destination file isn't there in the destination file.
From this, I concluded that I'll need to create the Document-level JavaScript and the form field Javascripts (e.g. a JavaScript triggered by a "Mouse Down" in a button) via the Acrobat GUI's. Acrobat doesn't seem to like it if I bypass the GUIs and just attempt to paste the code directly into the PDF file via an editor. By not using the GUI and just doing the cut & paste as I did, I'm probably missing some part of the code setup/creation process that Acrobat needs to know about.
This is why I originally asked about the syntax for the pseudo-XML, thinking I could just copy the pseudo-XML/JavaScript code from one PDF file to another, and then modify the code to reflect the needs of the destination PDF. Now I understand the need you mentioned to use the Acrobat GUIs to set up the initial XML/JavaScript structure.
Once I have the XML structure set up in the destination file (e.g. a JavaScript triggered by a "Mouse Down" in a button), I can obviously copy code snippets into that <AcroForm> sections, I just can't *create* the original "Mouse Down" <AcroForm> sections via the editor.
Another approach I could follow would be to make a copy of the original source file and change the name of the copy to the desired destination file name, and then start modifying the code in the new (destination) file -- presuming that's the easiest path to get the desired functionality created. This way, I wouldn't have to manually (via the Acrobat GUI) create all of the <Document-Level> and <AcroForm> sections.
Thanks for your (and others') help, let me know if I'm missing anything.
Dave

No Documentation for Paper Capture in Acrobat 6 Professional

Do not understand why 'paper capture' yields no results in the local or online help for Acrobat 6 professional. Never used it and would like to find documentation on its use.

Try OCR. They changed the name. Furthermore, they keep moving the selections around. For instance, Reduce File Size is no longer under the File menu (it was introduced with AA6), but has moved on with AA8 and 9 to other menus. I suspect you will be able to find OCR under a slightly different menu in Pro. It works the same way as the old Paper Capture plugin did. Be sure you tell it what kind of conversion you want and that the resolution is between 200 and 600 dpi as I recall. Colors can sometimes be an issue I think. It is also common for folks to do the OCR as part of a scan with the newer Acrobats.

Creating folders in Javascript for Acrobat

I cannot find a method for creating a folder in Javascript for Acrobat. I know how to do it in InDesign but the same object (i.e. the folder object) does not seem to be available for Acrobat.
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R,
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Thank you, Mr. Johnson. I appreciate your candor and your quick response.
R,
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What's a browser compability of JavaScript for Acrobat ?

I have a pdf with two fields that needs to be filled by user.
I am using a Javascript for Acrobat to display a prompt dialog asking user to enter a data. it works pefectly fine on my local computer, but whenever I open it using various browsers I am running into different problems:
Firefox: 20.0.0 No prompt dialog is showing up. Error (warning) message in developer's console: [09:49:17.064] Warning: TODO: unimplemented annotation type: FreeText
Safari: 6.0.4 Certificate is displayed sideways. No prompt dialog is showing up. No errors in the developer's console.
Chrome 26.0.1410.65 : works fine!
Opera 12.15 nothing shows up, no pdf, warning or anything else.
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My pdf is embedded into the following file.
http://uwf.edu/cde/mobileweb/certificate.cfm
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Each of these browsers has its own PDF viewer. Some of them can optionally be set up, by the end user, to use Adobe Reader instead.
(Don't overlook Windows 8 IE10, which defaults to running Windows 8 Reader.)
And don't overlook the mobile browsers on iPad, iPhone, Android...
Now each piece of software works, or doesn't, according to the designs and errors of their own developers. It would be a useful and helpful project if someone compared whether these viewers support interactive forms, and JavaScript, and if so what part works... but I have never seen the results of such a project. There are other pitfalls: Mac Preview, and hence Mac Safari, will fill a form but return a form which appears blank.
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Javascripts folder for Acrobat X on MAC

there is a Javascripts folder for Acrobat 9 under the install location, but I do not see that for the acrobat x installation on MAC.
any ideas?
thanks!

Run this code in the interactove JavaScript console:
app.getPath("app", "javascript");
But since that can be difficult to do with certain mac keyboards, here is what it give me for my system with Acrobat 9:
/Macintosh HD/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro/Adobe Acrobat Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaScripts/
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What I need to write plug-in for Acrobat Reader ?

Hi There,
I want to write plugin for Acrobat Reader, that's mean I need visual studio or is enough just to have some c compiler ?
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Best regards,
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http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhel p.htm?&accessible=true
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Depending on the format of your "templates", you could go with any of the options – Plugin, IAC or JavaScript.
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Along with my recent Design Premium upgrade, I ordered the Adobe CS4 Design Premium User Guide. And much to my surprise, it's complete documentation in separate books! Great!! I didn't know anyone still knew how to do that. So I get a pile of books about six inches high - and there's no manual for Acrobat. Completely missing from the CS4 group. What gives?
Logged a customer service query, after a couple of conversations with some CSRs, found out that Adobe doesn't supply a printed user manual along with all the other applications. Here's the excuse I was given: "The decision was made to not print the manual because we wanted to conserve on paper. Adobe is trying to encourage a paperless world, and our Acrobat product is an important part of that task. So we thought it was counter-productive to actually print the document." I am not making this up. Two of their CSRs stated the same thing, which makes me think that this is a "talking point" they've been given from someone in product marketing to cover the fact that someone screwed up and didn't get the books printed.
I finally got one of the CSRs to admit that, in fact, they actually did produce the manual - just like the others - and you can download it yourself. After a good bit of search, I finally found where it's located. In case you're looking for the same thing, here it is:
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It's the full 519 pages of documentation that should have been published - just like all the others I bought. This is just an oversight by someone at Adobe, plain and simple. The CSR told me that I couldn't order the printed bound version. But something tells me this is probably not the case - Adobe's probably just behind in getting books like this one published.
If anyone knows another avenue to communicate with someone at Adobe who's better informed than the CSRs I spoke to earlier, please let me know. I actually have more faith in Adobe to do the right thing and make good on sending me the book that I've already, in essence, purchased from them. If they're behind, that's okay. We all make mistakes. But to give the lamest of excuses is intolerable. Insulting, to say the least.
And someone in their marketing department ought to know better.

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http://www.adobe.com/support/acrobat/

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Hello,
I have two questions.
I currently using Safari 1.3.2 and Acrobat Reader 7.0.9 to test an PDF document embedded in a Web page. In Safari 1.3.2 I get a "This operation is not allowed" warning when the HTML object element and the embed element are encountered.
I have also tested it in Safari 3.0 on Windows, with plug-ins enabled in the Preferences and Acrobat Reader 8 installed. The PDF file is not shown and no warning is given either.
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Thank you in advance,
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Hello,
I have two questions.
I currently using Safari 1.3.2 and Acrobat Reader 7.0.9 to test an PDF document embedded in a Web page. In Safari 1.3.2 I get a "This operation is not allowed" warning when the HTML object element and the embed element are encountered.
I have also tested it in Safari 3.0 on Windows, with plug-ins enabled in the Preferences and Acrobat Reader 8 installed. The PDF file is not shown and no warning is given either.
So, does Safari 2.0 support embedding PDF files at all?
My other question is, assuming Safari does support PDF embedding, whether it is possible to interface from an HTML page to the Acrobat plug-in via Acrobat's JavaScript API. In IE this is a simple as getting the object element by id and for example, invoking its Print() method. Is this possible in Safari?
Thank you in advance,
Adal Fraile

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