Readers provide good examples of reference books for learning Acrobat JavaScripting.
Is there a good reference for Acrobat JavaScripting --one written by
someone who does not assume that you've worked with Acrobat for 10-years? Like
maybe Acrobat Java scripting for Dummies? --Doug Horn
Have you checked out “Extending Acrobat Forms with
JavaScript” by John Deubert? It’s written for beginners to JavaScript with
Acrobat, and has examples and walks you through them. Descriptions and reviews
can be found on Amazon.com. Haven’t seen a Dummies book yet. –Dimitri
Another is Creating Acrobat Forms by Ted Padova. It
has a JavaScript section and cut'n'paste on a companion CD, also on Amazon. – Bill
The Acrobat JavaScript Scripting
Reference and Guide (that's how it is called for Acrobat 6) is an absolute
necessity for working with Acrobat JavaScript. Period. It is a developer
documentation, which means that essentially every sentence is important, and you
will get punished in some ways if you don't completely read the entries about a
given property or method. ... trust me, experience proves that.
However, this is not the complete set of objects Acrobat JavaScript
contains. It is built upon the JavaScript 1.5 Core, which is documented on the
developer section of the Netscape website (the exact link is given in the
Acrobat JavaScript scripting Reference and Guide).
One of my recommendations for this is the JavaScript Visual Quickstart Guide by
Dori Smith, published by Peachpit Press. Also, the best reference book for
JavaScript is Flanagan's JavaScript, the
Ultimate Reference, published by O'Reilly (that's the one with the Rhino on
the cover). This book is a reference, but it does pretty properly separate Core
and Webbrowser Extensions, which means that you easily can see what you can skip
(or look at in order to see some JavaScript programming style). –Max
Wyss
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