Automatically click a button in pdf file with Acro-js

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December 1, 2022
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I am very new to javascript in pdf files. I have a pdf file with a button and I would like to have it clicked automatically or when the page with it is loaded or after a certain delay.

I know these procedures exist in Javascript, but I did not find them in Acro-js. I cannot use methods other than Javascript. How can I do it?

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Thom Parker

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If the button does not run JavaScript, but runs some other Action instead, then a bookmark can be used as a proxy. There is no functionality in Acrobat JavaScript for forcing a button click, but there is for a bookmark click. Put the button action on a bookmark, then add JavaScript code to the Page Open script to run the bookmark after a delay.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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Grazia Cateri273847678k30Author

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Thank you to all of you. I tried to place the action in a function as suggested and it worked.

Bernd Alheit

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What actions does you use at the button?

try67

Community Expert

It's not possible to "emulate" clicking a button using Acro JS. However, if the action associated with the button is to execute a script, you can place that code in a function at the doc-level and then just call it directly.

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