Do you want more powerful, more professional Acrobat forms? Do you want to harness the power of scripts without having to become a scripter?

Sure, you can use Adobe Acrobat to create a great-looking form, but you might not know that a few simple JavaScript techniques can make your forms perform magic. JavaScript, a powerful yet simple scripting language, can automate and enhance your forms, making them work harder and smarter. Your forms can calculate order totals, display roll-over help, validate and automatically format user input, retrieve and analyze information from databases, and more.

Best of all, you don't have to learn everything about scripts to take advantage of their power. This book offers truly practical, ready-to-use scripts that you can apply immediately to your forms to boost their performance and flexibility.

Author John Deubert brings an easy, informative style to teaching scripting without fear. Before you know it, you'll be building the most useful functions into your forms, enabling them to:

• Automatically fill in form data
• Perform calculations
• Validate form field contents
• Display roll-over text
• Generate reports

Contents

• Introduction
• Welcome to JavaScript !
• Page and Document JavaScripts
• Form Field Highlighting
• Checking Acrobat Version
• Calculating Form Fields
• Auto-Entering Form Data
• Roll-Over Help
• Dynamic Form Fields
• Dynamic Controls with Templates
• Keystroke Checking
• Field Validation
• Formatting Text Fields
• Alerts and Dialog Boxes
• JavaScript Functions
• Creating Pop-up Menus
• Interacting with Databases
• Reading and Writing a Database
• Generating Reports
• Where Now?