October 2011

Text Insertion the Right Way

In this tutorial I show how text insertion can be done the right way. Many forms I see instert text as if the form was made to be filled out on paper. Hopefully, this lesson can help you bring your pdf forms up to date.

JavaScript used in this tutorial:

var v_oldtext = FORM.Main.txtInsert.rawValue;

var v_newtext = v_oldtext.replace(“[Address Here]”, this.rawValue);

FORM.Main.txtInsert.rawValue = v_newtext;

Form Flow

This tutorial demonstrates how a LiveCycle Designer PDF can be made to act and feel like a Word Processor using nested subforms with properly set form flow.

Hide Form Fields at Runtime in a Dynamic PDF

Here’s a video that demonstrates a simple JavaScript trick in Adobe LiveCycle Designer that allows a form designer the ability to place text elements on a form that are “optional”, giving the form filler the ability to hide those elements if they choose to.

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