The droplet I created, which works on my machine does NOT work on my business partner's machine, and displays the mentioned error.   The droplet he creates, using the script and action I provided, does work on my business partner's machine.   In other words, the droplet works on the machine it has been created, but not on other ones. ... View more

Thanks for the answer.   Yes, he can make the droplet from the according action.   However, this approach (create the droplet on the user's machine) does not work.   Additional question (also to Adobe): Would it be possible for me to sign the droplet with my credentials?   Thanks again. ... View more

Actually, in our case, the error message comes at startup, while or after the preferences are loaded. macOS 10.13.3 (or 6, not quite sure, we ran an update, but it does not show in the About this Mac window), Photoshop CC 2019, newest revision. Complete reinstall, with and without deleting the preferences did not solve the problem. Could it be that uninstall with deleting user settings still does not delete everything? Could it be that, because it is a legacy installation, the place of some profiles in the /Library may cause issues? Any advice highly appreciated. Thanks a lot. ... View more

First and foremost, there is no "Java" involved with Acrobat and PDF; it is JavaScript. All, Java and JavaScript have in common, are three letters. The code may be accepted, but it is strongly suggested to use curly braces correctly. This definitely prevents ambiguities. It also would help showing that this second line is incorrect. In Acrobat JavaScript, only one assignment character (aka "=") is allowed. ... View more

Acrobat Reader for iDevices is mediocre, at best, when it comes to forms. It could also be that the form is not really a PDF, but uses an obsolete technology called XFA, which is placed in a PDF wrapper, so that it can be viewed with Acrobat (Reader) for Windows or macOS. You will find Acrobat Reader for Windows or macOS on the Adobe website. You might give a try to PDFExpert by Readdle on your iPhone, but if the form is XFA, even that PDF viewer will fail. ... View more

Or, you can use the (no longer paid-for) datepicker which I developed some years ago; feel free to contact me in private for details. ... View more

Scripting will definitely work. ... View more

As already stated, when a font for a form field is selected in Acrobat, it gets fully embedded. It might actually be a good idea to not bother about fields in InDesign, but add them in Acrobat. This would ensure that you don't get any weird Flash artefacts. ... View more

You could do it with two eMail submissions. The first one would be the FDF, and the second one the PDF. This could have the advantage to send the files to specific role eMail addresses. ... View more

This is incorrect. For form fields, the fonts are fully embedded, otherwise, they would be useless… Try it out yourself, and you will see about what we are talking here. ... View more

Just hanging in here… As you set the Rename flag, fields on your spawned Template do contain the name of the Template. So, in order to find the page number of the spawned Template, loop through the field names, and if there is a match of the field name with the template name, you get the page(s) on which it exists. Then delete those pages. A warning: Because the page number of the spawned page becomes part of the field name, there is a risk for unwanted duplicate field names. To prevent this, it may be better to save the spawned field's values, delete all spawned pages (after the page to be actually deleted), and to re-spawn the remaining pages, and finally restore the field values. ... View more

Besides the arguments already brought up, using the "Detect Form Fields" functionality works reliably only with very simplistic forms. It produces horrendous field names, which can be used for simple filling, but are close to useless if you want to do something with the data. ... View more

The value of an unchecked set of radiobuttons is "Off". So, you would have to treat that condition first; either by suppressing the calculation and maybe give an alert about unsufficient data, or by replacing it with another value. Number("Off") results to NaN (Not a Number), if I remember correctly. So, the sum of NaN plus other numbers is never > 0, and therefore, your result is always "Negative". ... View more

Ein Punkt ist, dass UpdateDate() ein Argument verlangt, und dieses im Beispiel fehlt. (oder ist das nur eine Vereinfachung für den Kommentar hier im Forum)? ___________ One issue is that UpdateDate() needs an argument, which is missing in the example. (or is that just a simplification for the comment here in the forum?) ... View more

Make absolutely sure that all fonts are properly embedded when you create the PDF. It looks to me as if the "l" (lowercase L) character (and most likely the "I" (uppercase i) as well are replaced by an outline. A cross-check would be to export the document without the fields, and see if you get better results, Then add fields and logic in Acrobat. ... View more

It is possible. However, it is "a little bit messy". There is the Keystroke Event property fieldFull, which you can check when entering text, and if it is, change the rect property of the field. This works for expanding; there is unfortunately no way to do it for shrinking. You also may have to put subsequent text into fields in order to achieve reflow. Another approach is to use a shadow field for data entry, analyze the entered text, and set the main (display) field to an according size. This will also need to put subsequent text into fields to achieve reflow. As said, it is a little bit messy, but feasible. For further detailled discussion or if your preference is "buy over make", feel free to contact me in private. ... View more

Als Document Level-Script nur die Funktion definieren (also "function blabla() {…… }", ohne diese aufzurufen. Im Seite Öffnen-Event (in der rechten Spalte die Thumbnails anzeigen, betreffende Seite wählen und im Kontextmenu "Seiteneigenschaften" wählen. Im daraufhin erscheinenden Dialog den Aktionen-Reiter wählen und dort JavaScript ausführen. Dieses Script enthält dann den Aufruf der Funktion (also "blabla()" )). Bei einseitigen Formularen reicht das schon aus. Bei mehrseitigen Formularen muss noch verhindert werden, dass die Funktion bei jedem Öffnen der Seite wieder ausgeführt wird. Das geht dann so: a) im Document Level Script ausserhalb einer Funktions-Definition eine Variable definieren und initialisieren (also "var loaded = 0 ;") b) im Seiten Öffnen-Script den Funktionsaufruf von der Variablen abhängig machen (also: if (loaded < 1) { blabla() ; loaded++ ; } Und das wärs auch schon… And now in "lingua franca": In the document-level script only define the function (thus "function blabla() { …… }", without actually calling it. In the Page Open event (display the Thumbnails in the right hand panel, select the according page and then select "Page Properties" via context menu. In the dialog popping up, select the Actions tab and there run a JavaScript. This script will contain the function call (thus "blabla() ;" )). With single-page forms, this is it. With multipage forms, we have to prevent the function being called each time we open that page. This goes like this: a) In the document-level script, define and initialize a variable outside of a function definition (thus "var loaded = 0 ;") b) in the PageOpen script make the function call depending on the variable (thus: if (loaded < 1) { blabla() ; loaded++ ; } And that would do it… ... View more

Yeah, blast from the past, where I was in social media (way before that term existed), where the absolute majority of the users were USAns… Watch out for the next incarnation of that text… ... View more

Wann genau wird die Funktion aufgerufen? In einem Document Level-Script, oder wo sonst? Wenn als Document Level-Script, ist es möglich, dass sie aufgerufen wird, bevor das Dokument ausreichend geladen worden ist. Versuche (wenn nicht schon gemacht), die Funktion im Seite öffnen-Event aufzurufen. For the monoglots: When exactly is the function called? In a document-level script, or where else? If it is a document-level script, it is possible that it is called before the document has been sufficiently loaded. Try (if not already done) to call the function i the Page Open event. ... View more

The very first question is whether the file really exists. Can you open it manually? The second question is whether your code is correct. Does it open any valid PDF? Go in Script Editor and run your code, with the answers activated. Anything strange there? If you are serious about AppleScript, you might get ScriptDebugger, which has better debugging capabilities (and much more), so that you can verify what really happens. The error message does come from Acrobat. (although Acrobat has various messages that actually mean that the file does not exist) ... View more

Another approach would be this.resetForm(["field01"]) ; or, if that appears too complicated, use this.getField("field01").value = this.getField("field01").defaultValue ; However, if this field is the result of a calculation, you'd have to check there too, that it proper resets. ... View more

Just an idea: if your users are using Dropbox, and always work with the synched folders, it should be possible to make the local synched folder in which you store the files read-only. When you set up the share for that folder, set it for all users except the admin (who updates documents) to reading only. This should actually work, but had to be tested. ... View more

Ein bisschen mehr Erklärung: Beim Erzeugen des Ursprungsdokuments wurde in einem Fall "Hochformat" gewählt, und im anderen Fall "Querformat", aber mit Höhe grösser als Breite. (umgekehrt, Querformat und Hochformat mit Breite grösser als Höhe, ist auch möglich). Bei der Erstellung des PDFs hat dies Unterscheidung zur Folge, dass die Koordinatensysteme um 90 Grad gegeneinander verdreht sind, und darum Anmerkungen halt auch verdreht angezeigt werden. Die einfachste Abhilfe ist tatsächlich, das Basisdokument neu zu erstellen, und dann die Anmerkungen zu kopieren. Wenn man sich in der Umrechnung von Koordinaten sicher fühlt, gäbe es auch die Möglichkeit, die Annotations zu exportieren, und das entstehende FDF zu manipulieren (aber man muss wirklich wissen, was man da tut…). ________________ For the monoglots: A few more explanations: When creating the original document, they chose "Portrait" in one case, and "Landscape" (but taller than wide). (It is also possible the other way round, "Landscape" and "Portrait" wider than tall). When the PDF is created, the coordinate systems are rotated against each other by 90 degrees, and that's why annotations are displayed rotated. The easiest workaround is to recreate the base document the way it has been done in the first place. If you are really familiar with transforming coordinates, there would be the possibility to export the annotations, and to directly manipulate the resulting FDF file (but that's not for the faint at heart, and you have to know what you are doing…). ... View more

To clear the selection in a set of radio buttons, well knowing that this is an "illegal state", you either reset the field (if there is no selection specified as default), or set the field's value to "Off" (which means a little bit of JavaScript). ... View more

It looks as if there is a confusion about these forums. These forums are "user-to-user", where users more experienced in a topic help users with less experience in that topic. There are people from Adobe following the forums, but they very rarely comment. Therefore, these forums are not a channel to pass things to Adobe, or to get in touch with Adobe representatives. ... View more

As far as I understand it, the replace document colors functionality works for the document, but not for Annotations (such as form fields). So, what you can try is to change the fill color of the field to transparent, and/or to yellow, and see what happens now. You might also deactivate the Hover color in the Forms tab of the Acrobat Preferences. ... View more

As stated, this forum is about Acrobat JavaScript. However, working with time durations is actually simple Core JavaScript work. Adding durations is simple and straightforward, as you have learned in elementary school: 1. Convert all durations to the smallest unit you want to work with (in this case, minutes) 2. Add up the minutes values 3. Convert the results back to Hours and Minutes. … and that should do it… ... View more

It may sound a bit esoteric, but there is actually a difference between 1.230 and 1.23. In the first case, the precision is ensured to be 3 digits, whereas in the second case, it is 2 digits. For common uses, this does not make much of a difference, but if you have to ensure the precision over the whole process, it does matter. ... View more