If you are still looking then ....   It to create a button field and to allow the reader of the PDF document to move the button field using JavaScript and the Acrobat/JavaScript API. "Clicking and Moving a Button Field in PDF" includes an example with two fields that you can drag around. It also includes the JavasScript function (constructor) to realize this feature. You may also want to consier developing an authoring tool that would generate the draggable button automatically. ... View more

It is possible to expand/collapse an image as a PDF form application that uses JavaScript and the Acrobat/JavaScript API. If the authoring tools you are currently using do not satisfy your requirements then you should consider developing an authoring tool that would generate the expand/collapse image tool as a PDF form application. ‘Some Ideas on “How to Expand/Collapse an Image in PDF”’ presents some ideas on how to do this and it includes an example of an image that can be expanded and collapsed. ... View more

I created an example PDF form with a button field containing an image and two text fields under the button field with texts. The search for text appears to work with the form fields using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. The PDF form is available at <An Example of Text Fields behind an Image: A Reply to “How to make ad… >. In the transparency imaging model (introduced in PDF 1.4) “objects can be less than fully opaque, allowing previously painted marks to show through. Each object is painted on the page with a specified opacity, which may be constant at every point within the object’s shape or may vary from point to point. The previously existing contents of the page form a backdrop with which the new object is composted, producing results that combine the colors of the object and backdrop according to their respective opacity characteristics. The objects at any given point on the page can be thought of as forming a transparency stack, where the stacking order is defined to be the order in which the objects are specified, bottommost object first. All objects in the stack can potentially contribute to the result, depending on their colors, shapes and opacities” (Adobe, 2006, 195). For more information please see Chapter 4 Graphics and Chapter 7 Transparency (Adobe, 2006). Therefore it should be possible for an author to “make sure that a field is under another field” in a PDF document so that the bottom field will be painted first followed by the top field by a PDF reader that complies with the PDF standard. Reference Adobe Systems Incorporated. (2006). 4.1 Graphics Objects. In PDF Reference, sixth edition: Adobe Portable Document Format version 1.7: 194. <https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf#page=194>. (Aug. 13, 2019). ... View more

How about the following? Create a new PDF document which has the same number of pages as the original PDF document with images. The pages of the new PDF document would be blanks. However since the images are opaque you can also make a copy of the original PDF document and the copy would be the new PDF document. For each page in the new document create a text field and a button field – make sure that the button field is on top of the text field. The button field should be configured to show icon only; set the icon of the button for every page in the new document to the corresponding page of the original document. ... View more

“Buttons cannot be used to replace layers”: False. The use of buttons as “layers” may replace the use of the OCG for some types of application. The example PDF form application “Some Ideas on How to Create an ‘Image Configurator’ Tool” has three examples of using buttons as “layers” – two examples are part of the document and the other example is an attachment to the document. Figure 2 and Figure 3 are examples of using buttons as layers. I think the use of buttons as “layers” in these cases were not an issue for the other types of contents in the pages. The example PDF form application “Using Buttons as Layers for Images or Animations” includes an example of using buttons as layers too. I have a more detailed rebuttal on your other points too plus two more examples in the PDF document: "Buttons versus OCGs: A Rebuttal". ... View more

I proposed the use of buttons for layers as an alternative way of creating layers. I am not sure what you mean by "benefit". A button can be used to show an image or an animation. Perhaps this is an example of a benefit? I created an example of this "benefit" if you are interested: "Using Buttons as Layers for Images or Animations A Reply to a Question at the Adobe Community Forums". ... View more

It is possible to show a layer as an image or an icon of a button. In this case each layer is a button. The Image Configurator may be divided into two sections: image preview section and aspect selection section. The image preview section consists of two types of buttons. The blank and the aspects. The blank should be “on top” of the aspects. Each aspect represents a set of choices. In the bag example the blank would contain the image of a bag without color, each aspect (handle-aspect, body-aspect and plaque-aspect) is an aspect button, and each set of colors available for an aspect is the set of choices. Thus a three-aspect Image Configurator has four buttons in the preview section: one for the blank and three for the aspects. The aspect selection section presents the sets of choices. In the bag example the sets of choices are the sets of colors for the handle, the bag and the plaque. Every choice has a button that changes the corresponding image of the aspect button. For example the “red” choice for the handle will set the icon for the handle aspect button. More details plus examples are found in “Some Ideas on How to Create an “Image Configurator” Tool: A Reply to a Question at the Acrobat Community Forums”. I can create another example using your images if you are interested. ... View more

Do you want the user to make a selection from a dropdown list box and based on the selection display some text then when the user clicks on an area in the text the text disappears? If so how about showing the text as an image in a button and when the user clicks on the button the button's visibility is set to hidden? If you are interested in an example then you should check out the following PDF form that I created "Buttons with a Dropdown Field to Show Instructional Texts". ... View more

You could also use PDF form fields to provide the options to your dealerships. After selecting the images and texts, you can spawn a template and fill the fields of the spawned template with the selected images and texts. I created an example in the PDF version of this reply: "Combining Elements to Form a Campaign Brochure Using a PDF Form with a Template". I hope this helps. ... View more

To give the author/designer the ability to specify a “Picture Rollower” without having to write a computer program then runtime tools and authoring tools related to the “Picture Rollower” should be developed and deployed for use with the author’s or designer’s favorite authoring/designing tool and Acrobat. Creating software to enable this feature is a one-time development effort. If and when such as tool is available then the author/designer can use it to create many “Picture Rollower” on more than one document. An interactive PDF version of this reply may be found at slidshare.net: "Some Ideas on How to Create a “Picture Rollower” Tool: A Reply to “Do… " ... View more

The value in TOTAL may be computed incrementally, based on each change in the value of the G*. The value in #WRONG may be computed incrementally, based on each change in the value of NG*. The change may be brought about by a field event such as MouseUp or Blur. For example if G0 changes from ‘’ to ‘X’ then 5 is added to the value of TOTAL, and if G1 changes from ‘X’ to ‘’ then 5 is subtracted from the value of TOTAL. Here is an example codes for the MouseUp event for text fields G* and NG* respectively switch(event.target.value) {   case 'X':     event.target.value = '';     this.getField('TOTAL').value -= 5;     break;   case '':     event.target.value = 'X';     this.getField('TOTAL').value += 5;     break;   default:     event.target.value = 'X';     this.getField('TOTAL').value += 5;   break; } switch(event.target.value) {   case 'X':     event.target.value = '';     this.getField('#WRONG').value -= 1;     break;   case '':     event.target.value = 'X';     this.getField('#WRONG').value += 1;     break;   default:     event.target.value = 'X';     this.getField('#WRONG').value += 1;     break; } The document "Computing Sums Incrementally and Automatically" is a reply to your question with more details. It contains three sample form applications: the first uses text fields for G* and NG* and attaches the code above as a MouseUp event to every text field, the second uses text fields for (G* and NG*) and attaches the code above as an OnBlur event to every text field, and the third uses button fields for G* and NG* and attaches code similar to the above code as a MouseUp event ot every button field. ... View more

Here is one way to do it: 1. Create a four-page document and keep it open. 2. Name page 2, page 3 and page 4 using createTemplate in the console using the following script:         this.createTemplate(“Page2”, 1);         this.createTemplate(“Page3”, 2);         this.createTemplate(“Page4”, 3); 3. Add the following script as a document-level script:         var pgv = [];         pgv['1'] = 3; pgv['2'] = 2; pgv['3'] = 3;         pgv['4'] = 2; pgv['5'] = 3; pgv['6'] = 2;         pgv['7'] = 3; pgv['8'] = 2; pgv['a'] = 4;         pgv['b'] = 4; pgv['c'] = 4; 4. Create the dropdown field and name it “Dropdown”. 5. Add the following options for the dropdown field:         1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, a, b, c. 6. Select ‘1’ as the initial option of the dropdown field using the following script in the console:         this.getField("Dropdown").value = 1; 7. Hide “Page2” and “Page4” using the following scripts in the console:         this.getTemplate("Page2").hidden = true;         this.getTemplate("Page4").hidden = true; 8. Add the following script as a custom validation script of the dropdown field:         this.getTemplate("Page" + pgv[event.target.value]).hidden = true;         this.getTemplate("Page" + pgv[event.value]).hidden = false; I created an example PDF form  (Sample Dropdown with Templates) that used the instructions above. ... View more

It is possible to show a map in PDF using a button field. It is possible to use another button field to show an animation of the "moving bike". To make the animation work would require JavaScript code to change the icon of the button field.  If you have an example map that I can use then I can create a prototype to illustrate what I mean. What do you mean by "IRL cycles x amount of miles"? How do you plan on adding information so that the bike moves? What do you mean by "no one else to see while [you are] putting in new data"? ... View more

If an error occurs then Net.HTTP.request still calls on the response handler. Try the following: 1. Include the check for error in your response then try again. 2. If you get an error type “NetworkError” then make sure the url is correct and there are no hidden characters or control characters in the url. The method util.stringFromStream is probably an alternative to SOAP.stringFromStream. Reference Adobe Systems Incorporated. (2007). Net.HTTP and util.stringFromStream (pp. 544 – 556; 743 – 744). In Adobe Acrobat SDK 8.1 JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Edition 2.0, April 2007. San Jose, California: Adobe Systems Incorporated. Retrieved Aug. 3, 2010 from DC Developer Resources. ... View more

Assume the names of four text fields: “total.0”, “A.0”, “B.0”, and “C.0”. The value of “total.0” is the sum total of the values of “A.0”, “B.0” and “C.0”. Assume each of “A.0”, “B.0” and “C.0” has a validation script. Assume the following script defined at the document level: var t0 = this.getField(“total.0”); var a0 = this.getField(“A.0”); var b0 = this.getField(“B.0”); var c0 = this.getField(“C.0”); t0.value=3; a0.value=3; b0.value=0; c0.value =0; Assume the user has entered 5 in field “A.0”. When the validation script runs for “A.0” and if the validation script uses event.value and a0.value, then the script will find that event.value is 5 while a0.value is still 3. Another way to compute the value of “total.0” when the value of “A.0” changes would be to perform the following computation in the validation script of “A.0”: t0.value = t0.value + (event.value – a0.value); A similar computation is performed in the validation script of “B.0”: t0.value = t0.value + (event.value – b0.value); And a similar computation is performed in the validation script of “C.0”: t0.value = t0.value + (event.value – c0.value); ... View more

Consider a Petri Net model for limiting the number of checks in a set of checkboxes (Chionglo, 2016); the following solution or control logic is based on the Petri Net model:   A special variable (nc) is needed to keep track of the number of checks still allowed. A special variable (ncLimit) is needed for the total number of simultaneous checks allowed. The initial state of the system: no checks and nc=ncLimit. The MouseUp event of every checkbox should have the following update logic: When a check event occurs Deduct 1 from nc. If nc < 1 then set readonly=true for every checkbox that is still unchecked. When an uncheck event occurs Add 1 to nc. If nc<2 then set readonly=false for every checkbox that is still unchecked. [A PDF version of this reply includes two sample forms that obey the checkbox limit using the control logic described above: http://www.aespen.ca/AEnswers/zngeW1458711009.pdf ].  References   Chionglo, J. F. (2016). “A reply to ‘limit the number of checkboxes that can be selected’” at Adobe, PDF Forms Discussions. Available at http://www.aespen.ca/AEnswers/zlEsm1458624106.pdf.   ... View more