How to insert form field into PDF document.

[Sato35478892m4bf]

Greetings, Community!

Nowadays, I've been working with AcroJS and faced one big problem.

During a few days, I tried to insert new date form field and signature form field into PDF document with AcroJS but failed every time.

I want to display standard date picker and popup dialog for signature with it but I feel suffering how to perform this.

Please let me know if you are familiar to this.

[Thom Parker]

What have you done so far?

[Sato35478892m4bf]

Actually, AcroJS didn't support built-in date form field.

So, I tried to add textfield first and then display embed date picker when I hit that field.

[try67]

The date picker is a feature of the application. You can't apply it to a field yourself, but if you apply the correct code to make it into a Date field then it should appear, just like when you do so manually.

[Thom Parker]

you'll find a calendar popup (date picker) example here:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Free-Sample-PDF-Files-with-scripts.cfm

This example is built entirely with form fields and JavaScript. It will only operate in PDF viewers that support both.  

Alternatively you can create a text field with date formatting, which if supported by the application (as noted by try67), will automatically display a date picker. Formatting in PDF form fields is controlled with a script in the format event.  The viewer recognizes  a field as a date field when a specific built-in Acrobat JavaScript function is used in the custom format script. This function is "AFDate_Format".   

But again, this only works in PDF viewers that support such a feature. 

[Sato35478892m4bf]

Thanks for your kind supports.

I am not sure that I can implement this feature but I want to do.

Best example of this is PSPDFKit.com.

Features of creating form are perfect, I think.

Is it possible?

[Thom Parker]

You do know that this is the "Adobe Acrobat" forum. We cover solutions in Adobe Acrobat.