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The newly formed Davao City Philippines Acrobat User Group is claiming to have the youngest active member in an Acrobat User Group. Here in this photo four-year old Sky Cubos demonstrates how to conquer villains in a complex maze.

Sky Cubos

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Later in the last Davao AUG meeting, young Sky got more serious when he assisted his father Chris Cubos, Davao Chapter Leader, in a demonstration on Adobe Flex.

Chapter Leader Chris Cubos and Sky

Asked what he hopes to learn at the AUG meetings, Sky told us he was looking forward to seeing more integration of Adobe Flash and PDF and Flex-based Adobe AIR Applications.

I just returned from the Acrobat Central Conference in Omaha Nebraska. The weather was about the same as last year… that’s blistering cold for someone who lives in the tropics. But in spite of the weather, I had a great time talking to Acrobat users from many different professions and picked up some tips from my friends and colleagues such as Bob Connolly, Thom Parker, and Ali Hanyaloglu.

Among my sessions was one on Acrobat Tips. The session seems to be a popular topic as the attendance was great for this session with a few extra chairs pulled in to accommodate the attendees.

Due to the popularity of a session on Acrobat Tips, I thought I’d put together a little document for all of you who couldn’t attend the conference. The title of the document is 101FormseTips. It’s a collection of some of the most frequent tasks I use when creating Acrobat PDF forms and LiveCycle Designer forms from the design stage through adding JavaScripts.

In light of Adobe’s announcement for the release of Acrobat 8.1.1, I had to take a back seat to Adobe. If you’re reading this blog post and the file isn’t available for download on the Acrobat Users home page it means that Adobe is getting a little more press and we have to wait a bit until the file is posted. It shouldn’t be long though so look over the home page and download the file.

If you have any comments on the content of the 21MB download, you can post them here if the file download doesn’t provide a page for comments.

Let me know your thoughts after reviewing it.

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You may have a need to use a button field on a form for adding an image to the PDF file —something like an employee ID form or an application that requires a photo to be submitted with the form.

You can easily add a button field in Acrobat and click the field to import an image onto your form. But if you try to import an image on a form created in Acrobat Pro using Adobe Reader, the button just sits there and won’t prompt you with a Broswe dialog box that enables you to import a photo on the form.

With just a simple solution in Adobe LiveCycle Designer you can easily create an Image Field that is recognized by Adobe Reader and allows the Reader user to import an image on a button click.

You can either create a form in LiveCycle Designer or open a form in LiveCycle Deisgner that you created in Acrobat. In Figure 1, I opened a form that was created in Acrobat. All the form fields are recognized by Designer and all I need to do is to add one more field to my deisgn.

To add the field to your form open the Library panel and choose the Image Field object. Be certain to use Image Field and not Image and drag the field to your form as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

That’s it. Just save the file as either a static or dynamic PDF document (any version) and now the Adobe Reader user can import an image with the click on the Image Field (see Figure 2).

Figure 2

The file does not need to be enabled with Reader extensions for this to work. But if you want the Reader user to save the data after filling in the form, choose Advanced > Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader from within Acrobat Pro.

Download the PDF file ( File Size: 88K)

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For those who use the Adobe Creative Suite, you may have noticed the appearance of the Go to Bridge tool (see Figure 1) in the File toolbar in Acrobat and the addition of the Browse command in the File menu. Some of you may have seen the tool appear in Acrobat 8.0, but lost it after installing Acrobat 8.1.

Personally, I like the shortcut to open Adobe Bridge while working in Acrobat. The Organizer is a great tool for accessing commonly used files such as reference documents like the Acrobat complete help PDF file, the JavaScript Specification Manual, and a host of different files you can use for samples and help documents for Adobe LiveCycle Designer.

However, when poking around my hard drive, I prefer to use Adobe Bridge. The Bridge window shows thumbnails of all the files and folders on mounted drives and I can easily locate documents in a new improved interface introduced in version CS3.

One can easily launch Bridge from the Status Bar (Windows) or the Dock (Macintosh) so it’s really not a big deal if the Go to Bridge tool is not showing up in your File toolbar. But, having the tool in Acrobat, just adds a little more ease in accessing Bridge.

To get the tool to show up in the File toolbar is a painful process if you don’t see it now in Acrobat 8.1. If you installed Acrobat, then later install the Adobe Creative Suite, the tool appears in Acrobat 8.0. However, installing the Acrobat 8.1 patch, eliminates the tool from the File toolbar and it won’t show up anywhere in the More Tools window.

If you install Acrobat from the CS3 installer DVD-Rom along with the CS3 apps, then upgrade Acrobat, the tool remains installed in the File toolbar. However, if you deinstall Acrobat and need to reinstall it, running the 8.0 installer gets the tool back in the File toolbar, but upgrading to 8.1 looses the tool. Your only solution is to completely deinstall the CS3 applications, then run the installer and install Acrobat along with the CS3 apps and later upgrade to Acrobat 8.1. This is a task that will take you hours due to the unbearably slow install process for the CS3 applications.

If you happen to have several licensed copies of Acrobat and the Go to Bridge tool appears on one machine while not showing up on other machines, you can’t copy the plug-ins folder from one computer to another to get the tool installed. It’s a plug-in, but for some reason it won’t show up by copying plug-ins from one computer to another. Also, don’t look at repairing the Acrobat installation. That won’t do it either. Again, the only way I’ve found is to do a complete deinstall/reinstall of Acrobat and the CS3 apps from the CS3 installer DVD.

If you happen to find an easier solution, post it here.

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