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Chuck Pelto <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:50:23 -0600
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On Jul 28, 2007, at 1:17 PM, chris denesha wrote:

> Two Qs:
>
> What version of Acrobat are you using?

Acrobat 7 Pro

> Have you looked at the SDK for that version of Acrobat on Adobe's  
> site?  There should be an InterApplication Communication Reference  
> that itemizes the supported Applescript, and also one for  
> Javascript.  I haven't scripted Acrobat in OSX yet, but for some  
> things I had to do call custom javascript from applescript with  
> Acrobat 5..

What is the link for that? For v7?

I was kicking around at Adobe's site and only found v8 SDK.

Regards,

Chuck




> At 03:04 PM 7/28/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>> Date:    Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:09:06 -0600
>> From:    Chuck Pelto <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: <No subject given>
>>
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> I'm working with an extensive PDF document using Acrobat. This
>> document is a series of records printed from some database into PDF.
>>
>> The challenge is that there are a series of fields that have check
>> boxes associated with them. Unfortunately, I cannot 'capture' the
>> value of being checked using Acrobat or the Clipboard [via  
>> AppleScript].
>>
>> Has anyone encountered such a situation? And/or found a work-around
>> that will allow me to automate determining which of such boxes have
>> been checked?

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