Enhancing Adobe Acrobat DC Forms with JavaScript

© Jennifer Harder 2017

Jennifer Harder, Enhancing Adobe Acrobat DC Forms with JavaScript, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2893-7_1

1. A Fundamental Forms Primer

Jennifer Harder¹ 

(1)Delta, British Columbia, Canada

Creating the right form before you add JavaScript to your PDF fields takes time and careful planning. Therefore, it’s important that you become familiar with each of the form tools and the properties that are associated with them. This chapter provides a quick overview of forms, fields, properties, and tabs that will serve as the basis for future chapters. If you are already comfortable with these topics, feel free to jump ahead to Chapter 2.

Forms Review

Each form field has within it properties that can be accessed by right-clicking on ...