Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide

Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide

Welcome to the Adobe Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide. This scripting guide is designed to provide you with an overview of how you can use Acrobat JavaScript to develop and enhance standard workflows, such as:

• Printing and viewing
• Spell-checking
• Stamping and watermarking
• Managing document security and rights
• Accessing metadata
• Facilitating online collaboration
• Creating interactive forms
• Customizing interaction with Web Services
• Interacting with databases

Here you will find detailed information and examples of what the Acrobat JavaScript capabilities are and how to access them, as well as descriptions of the usage of the SDK tools. Acrobat JavaScript is a powerful means by which you can enhance and extend both Acrobat and PDF document functionality.

Acrobat JavaScript is a language based on the core of JavaScript version 1.5 of ISO-16262, formerly known as ECMAScript, an object-oriented scripting language developed by Netscape Communications. JavaScript was created to offload Web page processing from a server onto a client in Web-based applications. Acrobat JavaScript implements extensions, in the form of new objects and their accompanying methods and properties, to the JavaScript language. These Acrobat-specific objects enable a developer to manage document security, communicate with a database, handle file attachments, manipulate a PDF file so that it behaves as an interactive, web-enabled form, and so on. Because the Acrobat-specific objects are added on top of core JavaScript, you still have access to its standard classes, including Math, String, Date, Array, and RegExp.

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