Export tooltips and import them again

[vcatenazzi]

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

[try67]

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.

[George_Johnson · Accepted solution]

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.

[vcatenazzi]

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

[vcatenazzi]

hello, me again

can I do this with the export values?

thanks

[try67]

Do you mean the export values of drop-down fields? If so, you can use this tool I've created to import a list from a text field to a drop-down menu: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Import Items from a Text File to a Combo-Box or List Field

This gives me an idea to add a command to it that will export the current values to a text file, so they can be more easily edited...

[vcatenazzi]

no, I mean the export values of the checkbox , like "YES or NO" or "Male or Female"

the fields that share tooltip but has different export values in OPTIONS

[try67]

That's possible too... Contact me privately and we could discuss it further.

[George_Johnson]

Yes, see the documentation for information about the exportValues field property. It allows yo to get/set the export values for radio buttons and check boxes.

[vcatenazzi]

hello George

I am having some issues, I was wondering if you could help

- the scrip does not word with some characters in the tooltip, like / ? ( ) . , - , the error is

could this be solved? I cannot tell the client to change the tootip

TypeError: getField(...) is null

1:Console:Exec

undefined

- I cannot export the filables files, the scrip is not working

var cSummary

for(i=0;i<this.numFields;i++)

{

   var cName = this.getNthFieldName(i);

   var cToolTip = this.getField(cName).userName;

   cSummary += cName + " : " + cToolTip + "\n";

}

this.createDataObject(this.documentFileName.replace(/\.pdf/,"_Tooltips.txt"),cSummary);

ReferenceError: cSummary is not defined

1:Console:Exec

undefined

- is there a way to import the translated export value? (not the result, the actual export value like yes or no, male or female, single or married etc to be able to insert the translation)

thanks a lot!

[try67]

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

[vcatenazzi]

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]

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.