Enhancing Adobe Acrobat Forms with JavaScript: Take Your Forms to the Next Level!

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J. HarderEnhancing Adobe Acrobat Forms with JavaScripthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9470-3_6

6. Basic and Complex Calculations

Jennifer Harder¹  

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Delta, BC, Canada

 

Chapter Goal: In the first example of JavaScript calculations in this chapter, we will compare three methods, value, Simplified Field Notation (SFN), and JavaScript, as found on the Calculate tab in the Text and Dropdown List form fields, as shown in Figure 6-1.

A screenshot of a table with 4 columns, for example, object 1, object 2, and total. It has 7 rows for sum, product, subtract, divide, ...