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Export tooltips and import them again

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
January 18, 2017
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hello,

I work for a translation company, we translate forms with its tooltips

I am doing it manualy , one by one

Is there is a way to export the tooltips to an editable file and then import them again, once translated or changed?

thanks

PDF forms

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Correct answer George_Johnson

Not directly, but you can use a script to do both. For many forms that I work with I keep track of the tooltips in a spreadsheets, which automatically generates the code to set the tooltips. For example, the code to set the tooltip text for a field named "Text1" to "Tooltip Sample 1" is:

getField("Text1").userName = "Tooltip Sample 1";

To set the tooltips, I just copy the cells from the spreadsheet that contain code like this to the interactive JavaScript console, select all of the lines, and press Ctrl + J, and the tooltips are set for all of the fields.

try67

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If anyone is interested, I've finished developing a script that allows you to do it easily and quickly:

Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Import/Export Tooltips

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vcatenazziAuthor

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Hi, just to confirm and make sure before I purchase, can you please let me know if special characters (such as ?!#@, etc) and double byte characters (for language like Chinese, Arabic, Thai, Japanese, etc) are properly handled?

try67

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Yes, if the text file is encoded properly. Basically, if you can enter those characters manually, then the script should be able to apply them as well.

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George_JohnsonCorrect answer

Inspiring

Not directly, but you can use a script to do both. For many forms that I work with I keep track of the tooltips in a spreadsheets, which automatically generates the code to set the tooltips. For example, the code to set the tooltip text for a field named "Text1" to "Tooltip Sample 1" is:

getField("Text1").userName = "Tooltip Sample 1";

To set the tooltips, I just copy the cells from the spreadsheet that contain code like this to the interactive JavaScript console, select all of the lines, and press Ctrl + J, and the tooltips are set for all of the fields.

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vcatenazziAuthor

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hello

I am testing it, if I have problems I will ask you again if it is not a problem

but it seams to work ok!!!

i have to create the automatic spreadsheet now

thanks a lot

try67

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Yes, it's possible to do it, but it requires developing a custom-made tool to export the tooltips (along with the field-names) to a plain-text file, and then import the translated file back into the PDF later on.

This is not a trivial task so if you're interested in hiring someone to develop such a tool for you, feel free to contact me privately at try6767 at gmail.com.

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