PDF FORM RATHER SLOW and SLUGGISH

Question

Hey all.
I am making a PDF form in Acrobat 9 with something like 100 fields. I am running basic javascript validation routines on it. The end result is a rather sluggish PDF. My PC has an AMD Athlon in it. More then good enough I would think for a simple form. However, when clicking on the radio buttons, which is where I placed a bunch of validation and conditions to calculate values and hide/make visible some fields, make other fields required. Stuff like that, the transitions between the old view and the new view, takes up to 4 or 5 seconds. This seems like an incredibly long time. Does anyone haev any advice?
Thanks!
Bret

Answer 1

I have included a copy of the script I am running. I have changed field names to protect the innocent and such. :)
So this is a pretty simple script. I simply click on the radio button that this script is attached to on a "Mouse Down" event to run a Javascript and it seriously takes 4 seconds for the fields to show.
// rbtn_field1 field1 button javascript
// labels
var lbl_field_1 = this.getField("lbl_field_1");
var lbl_field_2 = this.getField("lbl_field_2");
var lbl_field_3 = this.getField("lbl_field_3");
var lbl_field_4 = this.getField("lbl_field_4");
var lbl_field_5 = this.getField("lbl_field_5");
var lbl_field_6 = this.getField("lbl_field_6");
var lbl_field_7 = this.getField("lbl_field_7");
var lbl_field_8 = this.getField("lbl_field_8");
var lbl_field_9 = this.getField("lbl_field_9");
var lbl_field_10 = this.getField("lbl_field_10");
var lbl_field_11 = this.getField("lbl_field_11");
var lbl_field_12 = this.getField("lbl_field_12");
var lbl_field_13 = this.getField("lbl_field_13");
var lbl_field_14 = this.getField("lbl_field_14");
// text boxes
var tbox_field1 = this.getField("tbox_field1");
var tbox_field2 = this.getField("tbox_field2");
var tbox_field3 = this.getField("tbox_field3");
var tbox_field4 = this.getField("tbox_field4");
var tbox_field5 = this.getField("tbox_field5");
var tbox_field6 = this.getField("tbox_field6");
var tbox_field7 = this.getField("tbox_field7");
var tbox_field8 = this.getField("tbox_field8");
var tbox_field9 = this.getField("tbox_field9");
var tbox_field10 = this.getField("tbox_field10");
// radio buttons
var rbtn_field1 = this.getField("rbtn_field1");
// set them hidden - labels
lbl_field1.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field2.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field3.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field4.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field5.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field6.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field7.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field8.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field9.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field10.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field11.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field12.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field13.display = display.hidden;
lbl_field14.display = display.hidden;
// set them hidden - text boxes
tbox_field1.display = display.hidden;
tbox_field2.display = display.hidden;
tbox_field3.display = display.hidden;
tbox_field4.display = display.hidden;
tbox_field5.display = display.hidden;
tbox_field6.display = display.hidden;
tbox_field7.display = display.hidden;
tbox_field8.display = display.hidden;
tbox_field9.display = display.hidden;
tbox_field10.display = display.hidden;
// set them hidden - radio buttons
rbtn_field1.display = display.hidden;
// set them to not required
tbox_field1.required = false;
tbox_field2.required = false;
tbox_field3.required = false;
tbox_field4.required = false;
tbox_field5.required = false;
tbox_field6.required = false;
tbox_field7.required = false;
tbox_field8.required = false;
tbox_field9.required = false;
tbox_field10.required = false;
rbtn_field11.required = false;