Running JavaScript in PDF files

Is it possible doing JS in PDF files? Adobe Illustrator has a very old and tedious way of generating graphs.
If I could just use JS, I could perhaps use gRaphaël - what y'all think?
--Dwayne

I think the answer here is going to turn out to be "Technically yes, but practically no."
Unfortunately getting there is going to be somewhat of a trip. I'm sorry I didn't ask the right question originally:
Exactly what is the consumer of this PDF file? Does it go to a printer? Is it on the web? Is it meant to be viewed in Preview? In Acrobat Pro? In Acrobat reader? Do you know? Do you care?
I do not think you will be able to use gRaphael in Acrobat. And even if you can (and I am wrong), I do not think you will be able to produce device-independent output.
I suspect you should be asking in the Acrobat forum.
Jongware wrote:
If this graph was created with Illsutrator, it'd make more sense to ask in the Illustrator forum.
For what it's worth: Illustrator can deal with data-driven graphs, although I don't know to what extend; and if that fails, you could use Illustrator's Javascript interface to have it adjust your image for you.
Unfortunately it's my understanding that Illustrator's scripting interface entirely neglects graphing. I've found this very frustrating because that's pretty much the only kind of thing I've wanted to automate in Illustrator. But I'm happy to be proven wrong.

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