April 2008

eSeminar, Extending LiveCycle Forms with JavaScript and FormCalc

If you use Adobe LiveCycle Designer, the Windows-only forms tool that comes with Acrobat 8 Professional and Acrobat 3D, you’ll want to log in to the second of our free, 75-minute Designer-related eSeminars — on April 16 (10 a.m. PDT) — “Extending LiveCycle Forms with JavaScript and FormCalc.” Thom Parker of Windjack Solutions will show how you can use JavaScript and FormCalc to extend the behavior of XML forms created in LiveCycle Designer. JavaScript enables automated forms handling, Web and database communication, commenting, additional user-interface capabilities and more.

This interactive session will cover:

An introduction to the LiveCycle Designer scripting environment
Practical script development, testing, and debug techniques
Basic scripting examples in XML forms created with LiveCycle Designer
Adding custom calculations
Hiding and showing sections of a form
Changing Form Field properties, such as border color
Using check boxes, buttons, and combo boxes to control dynamic form features

In the JavaScript Forum, another pair of Adobe Systems experts — Lee Sutton and Joel Geraci — will respond to related user questions between April 16-30.

Register now for our upcoming eSeminar. Attendees will be entered for a chance to win a Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner.

Best Regards
~ Kurt, Editor, AcrobatUsers.com

Do the Acrobat shuffle
Donna Baker offers tips and techniques to bring content together from different locations and in different formats into a cohesive PDF document.

Enter the PDF Forms and LiveCycle Designer Templates Contest
Share your PDF forms and LiveCycle Designer 8 templates in our gallery and you could win prizes and get noticed! Just create a visually interesting or technically sophisticated fillable PDF form or a LiveCycle Designer 8 template. Submissions are due by April 30. Read the contest details and the contest FAQ.

Participants wanted for NY focus groups
Adobe is looking for forward-thinking professionals with whom to share future product and print services ideas for your review and comment. There are currently three focus groups to be held in mid-town Manhattan on May 1, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. If you are chosen to attend, you will receive food, beverages and a gift check as a token of appreciation. To RSVP, please send an email to printfeedback@adobe.com with your name, company, title and preferred timeslot (9 a.m., noon, 3 p.m.).

Extracting pages from a PDF with Acrobat JavaScript
Imagine receiving a large, automatically generated report in PDF that needs to be sliced and diced so different parts can be sent to clients or other departments. Not an uncommon activity, and one that’s possible to do manually with Acrobat Professional. Now imagine having to do this every week to a document that needs to be split 100 different ways. That’s a big task, one prone to human error. Fortunately, this can be easily automated with Acrobat JavaScript, as Thom Parker explains.

March eSeminar archived for on-demand viewing
If you missed the March eSeminar on Creating Interactive Forms with LiveCycle Designer by Jim Healy of FormRouter, Inc., the archived version is available for on-demand viewing.

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