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I am studying the Acrobat DC SDK Documentation, which states that I should register a four character prefix with Adobe for my plug-in.  How is that done?  Whom should I contact?

Hello Everyone,I need to implement a decision tree in a pdf.  We need to ask a series of questions where the next question is dependent on the current answer and there are ten different question paths.  At the end of a question path I’d like to send an email containing the user’s answers. Rather than using a pdf form to ask the questions, I’d like to present the question on a page with the answers displayed as images that when clicked takes the user to the next question.  I was hoping to somehow capture each image clicked (i.e., the answer to each question) then email them to myself. I am trying to determine how to best build this solution this using Acrobat Pro.  People would be answering the questions using Acrobat Reader. Could I call a javascript function when an image is clicked that saves a value (i.e., the answer) to an array then at the end send the contents of the array as an email? Or, perhaps I could use a hidden form whose field value

I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI to create fillable forms and collect responses. I have collected a large handful of forms and only half of them are importing properly into the response file. The other half give me this error message "Acrobat could not collect data from the file [FileName.pdf] into this response file. Either it is not a valid form that was completed and returned to you, or you don't have access rights to it.When I open the PDF itself in Acrobat Pro, I have not problem viewing the contents. However, it seems like it is not recognizing the sections of response fields that have text in them. I am not sure if that makes sense.I think there may be issues with some people filling out their forms on Mac and I am using Windows, but I need a solution that will allow me to meet everyone's needs.If anyone can suggest troubleshooting options or provide support, it would be most appreciated.Thanks!

We have several custom dyanamic stamps that our users use on PDF documents.  They usually come out to be about 524x244pixels or 1.747x0.813inches, which is the page size of the stamp pdf itself (the 2nd page, first is 8.5x11 as per most stamps).  Sometimes however, when placed on a incoming PDF they are sized down to a speck and have to be manually resized.  Almost all of the time they get placed without issue at the default size... so it is difficult to readily replicate or identify the root cause.  I checked the javascript on the stamp itself and the only code there is for the dynamic events (name & date).  Nothing to indicate size, orientation, or placement coordinates.  I haven't been able to find any other articles with the same issue. Thanks, if anyone has seen this sizing issue or knows how to prevent this going forward.

Hi,I am trying to validate a number field. The validate range function is great, but I have two ranges that a number can fall between. I need to validate the number as being .75 or in the range from 2.25 to 6.00. I have ZERO idea how to even start that custom validation script in Java. I've searched the community to see if there is something similar, but I am at a loss. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!Scot Motzny

I need to create a javascript in form fields so that my page numbers will change automatically depending on number of pages i.e. Page 1 of 3

We use javascript on our PDF documents that print today's date. Last week the javascript stopped working and prints the date the PDF was created instead.Here is the javascript we use:var f = this.getField("DatePrinted");        f.hidden = false;        f.value = "Printed on: " + util.printd("mmm dd, yyyy", new Date());These are our company's legal documents and the printed date is very important, as the documents are uncontrolled 24 hours after printing.Could anyone provide assistance to this?Thank you.

Hello, I am using Acrobat X and am noticing an issue when using Internet Explorer to view a PDF with a bookmark panel. This issue is new to me.The PDF document in question resides on an in-house server. The bookmarks panel in this PDF looks fine if I navigate directly to the server where the PDF resides and open the PDF. All of the bookmarks are properly displayed in the pane.However, we have an in-house web-based application that opens this PDF when you click the application's Help button. When I open this application (using IE as my browser) and click Help, the PDF opens, but all I see in the bookmarks panel is the first bookmark. The rest of the bookmarks after that are not displayed. I've never seen this happen before.Now, if I right-click the PDF while I am viewing it in IE, and I save it to my desktop and open it, all of the bookmarks appear in the bookmark panel as expected. So it's only the IE browser view that is missing all but one of the bookmarks in the panel.Any ideas what

Hi, we have an application in C# on company , this application is using the interop.acropdflib.dll, everithing was fine before windows 10 updated since some days, now every time I push the print button nothing happen, does not show the window to set up printing and print it.Will this be resolved in a future update? or how can i solve it?

I'm having trouble with my code (I think). I have a dynamic stamp created and have added 2 text fields. One to enter the document # and one to prompt the user to enter the Revision. The code for the document # was easy thanks to this board.event.value = event.source.source.documentFileName.split(".").shift();However, I cannot figure our the code to promt the user to enter the revision. The code i have is:if ((event.source.forReal)&&(event.source.stampname == "#GHhz9-BkcmvhZfa7GtQxrA")){event.value("Revision").value = app.response(cAsk, cRevision);}But it does nothing. Any help for a novice would be awesome.

Hi, I need help resolving typeerror: service is undefined. trying to open a cerave coupon canadausing mac os 10.11.6using acrobat 2019.010.20099

I have found many posts abouting autopopulating dates/times into fields.... but what I am looking for is the following... I have a field titled "incident_date",  I want the users to be able to click a button, or a link that says "Today" and it will input the current date.I have a field titled "incident_time",  I want the users to be able to click a button, or  alink that says "Now" and it will input the current time.If they don't click one of the links/buttons, I want the users to be able to input a different date (in case they are doing their reports on a a differnt day)Having it autofill with todays date/time all the time does not work for my situation, as it can be different, and the pdf gets opened often by different users, and I need the date/time to stay the same.  For extra credit, I have check boxes that are titled "am" & "pm" and would like them to be automatically checked in the appropriate check box based off of the current time when the abo

I'm building a user-editable form and I've noticed that when values are added, some fields don't update until another field is altered. It doesn't matter what filed. It's as if they're calculating one step behind.  For instance, if I have a field 'output', which displays the sum of input1 and input2. With nothing filled out, output displays '0'.I enter 3 to input1, but output still displays '0'.I enter 5 to input2, and output displays '3'.I delete the value in input2, and output displays '8'. It just keeps going round and round, one calculation behind. This is just a simplified example to illustrate the behavior. My actual form is using javascript to handle the calculations. I can't seem to figure out why it's doing this. Is there some limit on the number of fields on a form, before it starts to act funny? Anyway, much appreciation for any direction.

I am hoping for a solution using the Action wizard only for the following problem. I am pretty new to Acrobat so I am sure there are many options I have not yet considered for my task. I am working with a large series of typewritten forms that were scanned. These forms contain information that should be read semi-automatically. The same information is in the same area on every page and every page has 6 "areas of interest" that contain said information. The rest of the page is different from page to page so OCRing entire pages would create different levels of noise depending on the page. That is why I want to OCR only those areas of interest and get the output as plaintext. (The goal of the data is in Excel so I will try to get the output in there as directly as possible by VBA, although reading from exported files in VBA is possible, too.)I was able to create an action that lets the user crop every page down to one of the aforementioned areas and then run OCR and output the text a

Hello - thanks for hopefully attempting to answer my question.  I'm trying to set up formatting/auto functions in fields in forms using Adobe Acrobat calculations. What I am wanting to do is have around 4 - 5 fields in a form which all add up. Pretty simple so far (ie go to properties in the form and add etc). However I'm wanting the fields that I enter a number into and then the final "calculator field" in the form to be formatted with an automatic "+" or "-" depending on what is entered.  Two examples both using 4 fields that I enter data into in the form and one "calculator field: EXAMPLE 1: What I enter: Field 1; "4",  Field 2; "10",  Field 3; "-5",  Field 4; "25", Final "Calculator field"; "34"What I would like to see in Example 1:  Field 1; "+4",  Field 2; "+10",  Field 3; "-5",  Field 4; "+25", Final "Calculator field"; "+34" EXAMPLE 2What I enter: Field 1; "10",  Field

Summary : need to change "Confirm before taffing document" setting via Registry keys.I am working on a deplyable Bot that will automate some tasks in a PDF using Winium. In order to have access to the UI elements within a PDF, I first need to uncheck the "Confirm before tagging document" option found in Preference > Reading > Screan Reader Options > "Confirm...". In order to make this Bot deployable to all machines, I would need to be able to change this setting programatically, ideally through the windows registry. But I can't seem to find that setting anywhere. I looked in the Adobe regristry reference... but found nothing (https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/PrefRef/Windows/index.html) Please let me know if there is a solution to this. 

Hello everyone,I have a form which has different signature fields. One of the fields is the signature of the CEO. But the signature of the CEO is not always necessary. It depends on a field in the form. If this field is checked, the CEO has to sign. If the field is not checked, the CEO does not have to sign. I have solved this hiding and showing of the signature field with JavaScript. But I can only lock the document if all signature fields in the form are filled in.Here my hiding with JavaScript is ignored. Although the field has been hidden by JavaScript and all visible signature fields are signed, I cannot lock it. Only if I show the signature field of the CEO and insert a signature here, I can block it.Can someone explain a solution to me here? Is it possible to declare a signature field somewhere as an option and not as a mandatory field? Thanks a lot alreadyBastian

I have created a PDF that's too large to submit as a whole, however, I am hoping to be able to get around this by submitting the file as an FDF and then being able to open it in PDF (since I will have the full PDF file on the server that receives the submitted FDF). To do this I have briefly read that the FDF file must reference the PDF file, I am just wondering how to go about doing this?  So far to submit the file as FDF I have just changed the settings on a Button -> Submit a Form action to FDF and ticket include field data and comments. However, I cannot see anywhere about referencing the PDF file. Will I be able to just take an exact copy of the PDF file and put it in the same folder that the FDFs are submitted to and it will be smart enough to know to open this PDF file up with the FDF data?

I have created a PDF that contains the usual fillable form data, text boxes, dropdowns, etc. I will be sending this out to clients and they will be filling it out and submitting the form, this form will go up to Azure and be pulled down into my application. As part of this process, the document that has been submitted will need to be reviewed in my application by a different user before being approved. This is where I am having difficulty since I can't submit the file as a PDF to Azure since its too large in file size, I can however submit the file as an FDF (which to my knowledge just contains the form field data and not the likes of labels, etc.), my problem is trying to read this FDF file in the application, since it's not containing all of the data as a PDF would.  So my question is, is it possible to receive the file as an FDF when the client submits it, and then populate the PDF with the FDF data that I have received? Since the PDF I will be populating will be the

Hello,  I need to export my pdf as fdf and save it server. I have script that is working, but it's not working in adobe acrobat reader. Can someone please help me know I can export in Reader. var fields = [];var Arrays =[];app.alert("Started")for (var i = 0; i <= this.numFields - 1; i++){fields.push(this.getNthFieldName(i));Arrays = fields.sort( function(a,b){return a - b; } );}//Don't change JavaScript, expecet Domain name, otherwise It will not workvar aSubmitFields = fields ;var cFDF = this.exportAsFDF({aFields:aSubmitFields,//cPath: "JHHJH.fdf",//bAnnotations:true,}); 

Has anyone in this community been successful at getting a WhiteList Policy to work?  We have a Windows .Net program that needs to open our pdf's in a particular directory on the server.  We are using the Adobe Acrobat Browser Control Type Library 1.0 (AxAcroPDFLib). The ONE example in the security docs looks quite specific and straight forward.   However, I cannot get the browser control to show any of the pdf files with protected mode turned on.  The program loads it but it remains solid gray. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Is there a way to auto populate a text field with consecutive numbers? Looking at the picture, say I start typing in 'Operation TypeRow1', I want the 'Op #' in that same row to auto populate as the number "10". and then when I start typing in Operation TypeRow2, I want the 'Op #' to auto populate to 20. Side Question:The Op # for a Rework is always 900. Say I type "Rework" into the 'Operation TypeRow', I want the cooresponding 'Op #' to auto populate as "900" but also keep the formatting mentioned above. Is this possible? 

HiDoes anyone know how I might use an action in adobe pro to add a document specific footer (ie a reference number) to a folder of documents - based on an index (xls or CSV). So CSV could have filename and then reference and action would look at this to find the reference and then add it as a footer to the document, then move to the next document and repeat. Any thoughts - or other ways to achieve this would be welcome! Many thanks 

Hello everyone,i would like to show a signature field "CEO" in Adobe Acrobat Pro CC only if the checkbox, "Approval by CEO nessary" is checked.The background is that the signature of the CEO is not always required. The document can only be locked if all signatures in a form are filled in. Thanks a lot Bastian

Since I couldn't find the Acrobat scripting forum which used to exist, I had to post my question here.   I have a simple PDF form which will be filled by users. At the bottom of the form, I placed a "Send" button that will automatically attach the PDF to the email and will eventually be sent to the concerned person. Is there a way to have the Entity Name (see image) show in the e-Mail Subject instead of having the document name?