introduction and orientation

[Orcio76]

Hi, I'm completely new, not sure if this is the right place.

I have experience programming VBA in the whole Office Suite and also in Google Scripting Apps, but I just get to know that PFDs are programmables. 

I only knew Acrobat Reader. I want to learn everything, please point me in the right path. I don't have a clue from where to start.

Is it an SDK? Is there and IDE for free (student/developer edition)? How can I start to program a formula in a form? What is the "Hello Word" of PDF programming?

Thanks!

Orcio

[ls_rbls · Accepted solution]

Hello Orcio,

There is javascripting to be able to achieve calculations and all sorts of other advanced things with a PDF form using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. And yes, there is a student/teacher subscription plan.

See here: https://www.adobe.com/sea/creativecloud/buy/students.html

Adobe Acrobat DC SDK Documentation: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/#t=Acro12_MasterBook%2FIntroductio...

downloads here: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/documentation.html

SDK Latest release download here:  https://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat.html

Acrobat and PDF Library API Reference Guide:

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/acrobat_pdfl_api_reference.pdf 

Javascript of API Reference:
https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/AcrobatDC_js_api_reference.pdf 

Hope this helps by stepping you in the right direction. Good Luck!

[ls_rbls · Accepted solution]

Hello Orcio,

There is javascripting to be able to achieve calculations and all sorts of other advanced things with a PDF form using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. And yes, there is a student/teacher subscription plan.

See here: https://www.adobe.com/sea/creativecloud/buy/students.html

Adobe Acrobat DC SDK Documentation: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/#t=Acro12_MasterBook%2FIntroductio...

downloads here: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/documentation.html

SDK Latest release download here:  https://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat.html

Acrobat and PDF Library API Reference Guide:

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/acrobat_pdfl_api_reference.pdf 

Javascript of API Reference:
https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/AcrobatDC_js_api_reference.pdf 

Hope this helps by stepping you in the right direction. Good Luck!

[ls_rbls · Accepted solution]

Great place to start here: http://www.4xpdf.com/2009/01/pdfscriptingcom-demonstrates-how-to-copy-pdf-scripts/

and here: https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/javascript_console

Hello World javascript example using Acrobat here: https://answers.acrobatusers.com/how-to-call-a-function-of-one-Acrobat-Javascript-file-from-a-separa...

[Orcio76]

Thank you very much!

[ls_rbls]

You're welcome.