Adobe acrobat 7.0.5 sdk Manual De Usuario

Forms and the Acrobat SDK

Creating a new form, whether using Adobe LiveCycle Designer or programmatically using 
Acrobat JavaScript, requires you to consider specific issues. For guidelines, see the Acrobat 
JavaScript Scripting Guide.

Your form design may have dynamically changing features such as the current date, as well 
as convenience options such as automatic generation of email messages. It may even have 
a dynamically changing appearance and layout which is responsive to user interactions.

For Acrobat forms, there is a rich set of APIs that allows you to create and manipulate form 
fields, and to retrieve form data using Acrobat JavaScript, a plug-in or an external 
application.

Though you can manipulate form fields and form data from a plug-in, it is much quicker to 
develop Acrobat forms using Acrobat JavaScript. 

Using the Acrobat SDK, you can:

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Create Adobe PDF forms from scratch or from a template

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Add or remove form fields

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Set form field properties

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Make forms web-ready (see 

)

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Extract and export form data (see 

)

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Make forms accessible (see 

)

You can extend the functionality of Acrobat forms through the application of Acrobat 
JavaScript. 

Acrobat JavaScript can be integrated into your forms to enhance their interactive 
capabilities. You can extend the capability of your forms by using Acrobat JavaScript to:

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Automate formatting, calculations, and data validation

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Develop customized actions assigned to user events

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Interact with databases and Web services

Acrobat JavaScript provides a 

 object, which has properties that define the field’s 

type, appearance and data values.