Adobe Acrobat Official JavaScript Reference

Document Object

This object provides the interface between a PDF document open in the viewer and the JavaScript interpreter. It provides methods and properties for accessing the PDF document.

You can access Document Objects from JavaScript in a variety of ways:

• The this Object (page 631) usually points to the Document Object of the underlying document.

• Some properties and methods, such as extractPages (page 242), app.activeDocs (page 49), and app.openDoc (page 97), return Document Objects.

• Document Objects can often be accessed through event Objects (page 314), which are created for each event by which a JavaScript is executed:

• For mouse, focus, blur, calculate, validate, and format events, event.target (page 334) returns the Field Object ...