Access format field property with a script

[PDF Automation Station]

Is it possible to extract the formatting property of a text field with a script?

[try67]

What do you mean by "formatting property", exactly?

[PDF Automation Station]

In the field properties, the format tab where you can format numbers, dates, percentages, etc.  Is there a script that will tell what the formatting, if any, is for that field?

[Thom Parker · Accepted solution]

No, all the field formatting options are actually predefined scripts. And there is no way from script, to get access to an existing script. It would be really helpful if you could, but you can't

[PDF Automation Station]

Thanks Thom.  I realize it's probably because there are unlimited variations, but even if a script could tell me the formatting is not "none" would be helpful.

[try67]

Nope, not possible.

[Thom Parker]

Yeah, short of actually parsing the binary PDF file contents, you can't get access to anything about the field formatting info.

[PDF Automation Station]

I figured it out.  I'm trying to get a list of text fields that are formatted (but no details).  I looped through the fields and I set the dirty flag to false, forced the formatting to none using setAction(), tested the dirty flag (if true, the formatting changed from something to none, if false nothing changed - the formatting was already none).

[Thom Parker]

Ha ha, very clever. Elimination strategy

[try67]

Nice one!

[try67]

I see. Unfortunately, no, you can't access it. Nor can you access the formatted value, only the actual one.

[PDF Automation Station]

Thanks.