My Javascript is over 1000 lines, so Editing it for too long crashes my Adobe. Is there a way to fix this?

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February 6, 2019
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The question itself is pretty much the short of it.

My Javascript has become too large, and It sometimes crashes on me when I attempt to edit it for too long.

Is there a way to fix this?

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try67

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Don't edit the code within Acrobat. Use a proper code editor (I like to use Notepad++), but not as an "external editor". I write all the code there, and then copy it and paste into Acrobat's built-in editor when ready.

Ryan_Oliver_02445Author

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That's what I've resorted to doing now, it makes creating the code SO much easier.

In your experience, what is the largest script you've written within Acrobat?

Ryan_Oliver_02445Author

Known Participant

Hard to say... Must be at least 10K lines of code. At some point it gets too large for the built-in editor and you have to either split it or use an external editor to enter it. In that situation I prefer to use Notepad, as it's the most basic and simple one to use.

Well, that is good to know because it seems I just hit the cap for how much code I can have for the in-built Acrobat editor.

I just set up Notepad as my external editor. How does one access the javascript in the notepad file?

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