Enhancing Adobe Acrobat Forms with JavaScript: Take Your Forms to the Next Level!

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J. HarderEnhancing Adobe Acrobat Forms with JavaScripthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9470-3_1

1. A Fundamental Forms Primer

Jennifer Harder¹  

(1)

Delta, BC, Canada

 

Chapter Goal: Creating the right form before you add JavaScript to your PDF fields takes time and careful planning. Therefore, it’s important that you become familiar with each of the form tools and the properties that are associated with them. This chapter provides a quick overview of forms, fields, properties, and tabs that will serve as the basis for future chapters. If you are already comfortable with these topics, feel free to jump ahead to Chapter 2.

Forms Review

Each form field has within ...