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Articles by Thom Parker about Acrobat and PDF scripting.

Below are articles authored by Thom for JavaScript Corner at the Adobe Acrobat User Community web site and Planet PDF. There's a wealth of Acrobat and PDF scripting information here- enjoy!

Navigating the Internal Structure of a PDF Document

Popup Menu Programming in Acrobat JavaScript

The Acrobat JavaScript Console (Your best friend for developing Acrobat JavaScript)

Working with date and time in Acrobat JavaScript - Part 1 of 3

Working with date and time in Acrobat JavaScript - Part 2 of 3

Working with date and time in Acrobat JavaScript - Part 3 of 3

Add a Custom Menu Item to Acrobat

General Access to Existing Acrobat Scripts

Submitting Data

Using Unicode Text

How to do (not so simple) form calculations

Entering scripts for form fields

Finding Page Boundaries

Formatting Text Fields

Get and Set PDF Metadata from Acrobat JavaScript

Multi-line Text in a Button Caption

Hiding and Showing Form Fields

Splitting and Rebuilding Strings

"Where is" Series, Entering Document Actions

"Where is" Series, Entering Page Actions

"Where is" Series, JavaScript in Batch Processing

Creating and Using Layers (OCGs) with Acrobat JavaScript

Automating PDF Document Metadata Insertion with Acrobat JavaScript

The Alert Box: Part 1 of 5 on Popup Windows

The Response Box: Part 2 of 5 on Popup Windows

The Document File Browser: Part 3 of 5 on Popup Windows

The Document File Browser: Part 4 of 5 on Popup Windows

Custom Dialog Boxes: Part 5 of 5 on Popup Windows

Building PDF Reports with JavaScript

Using Colors in Acrobat JavaScript

Entering Folder Level Scripts

Changing Another Field with Combo Box (Drop Down) Selection

Popup menus for Acrobat (A great user-interface item)

File paths in Acrobat JavaScript

Dynamic stamp secrets

Entering scripts into a Link Action

What's New with Acrobat 8 JavaScript

Creating Radio CheckBoxes

"Where is" Series, Entering Document Scripts

Automatically add buttons to a PDF

Disabling (graying-out) form fields

Programming List and Combo Fields in Acrobat and LiveCycle Forms - Part 1

Programming List and Combo fields in Acrobat and LiveCycle forms- Part 2

Applying PDF security with Acrobat JavaScript

Automating placement of annotations

Inserting pages into a PDF with Acrobat JavaScript

URL encoding strings in Acrobat

Extracting pages from a PDF with Acrobat JavaScript

Text matching with regular expressions

Executing Acrobat menu items from JavaScript
Automating Redaction with Acrobat JavaScript