No Scripts Work Acrobat Pro DC (I'm a first-timer)

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July 14, 2020
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First time using Acrobat Pro DC and I have never written in Javascript.

I made a cool form with fields, drop downs, signatures, dates, clear the form button, boxes that autofill numbers using average or sums of numbers from other fields. Everything's working great. But when trying to learn how to write an easy code for doing something a little more custom I find that no codes work at all.

I have the Enable Acrobat JavaScript and Enable interactive console boxes checked in Preferences. In the console no scripts operate. Not even something as simple as 3+4. What am I doing wrong? Is there some other security setting or something that I have to turn on or off?

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Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

Enter 3+4 and press ctrl-enter.

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Anonymous

It works! How exciting. Entering 3+4 and pressing ctrl-enter produced 7.

So, I guess that means my program's not broken as I supposed?

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

Your program is not broken.

ls_rbls

Community Expert

Can you share another example of the codes that you already tried?

Not 3+4. In Acrobat JavaScript (and with every programming language) there is a syntax and a structure that must be followed.

Usually variables are declared first, then you use commands and statements in a variety of ways to achieve something.

Another thing, JavaScript arithmetic is handled differently than the arithmetic that us humans can do by hand.

Most programming and scrpting languages follow a logic of true or false. So a 3+4 not necessarily will return 7 as we would expect if the intention was to apply simple sixth grader math, for example.

I am curious though, why is it that your Acrobat javascript console is not returning any output as you've indicated.

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Anonymous

Thank you Hero for responding. At the moment I don't have any of the other codes I have tried. I watched a couple of video on Youtube but everytime I did whatever they told me to do (like 3+4) theirs does something and mine does not. I probably missed some detail. I'll keep at it and come back for help.

Thank you

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