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dayve
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Posted - 30 August 2003 :  23:18:06  Show Profile  Visit dayve's Homepage
Lately I've been playing with Adobe Acrobat and using the integrated JavaScript and ADBC features which allows me to read and write to a database base on a fillable form.

I would imagine a feature I am looking for should be possible, but for the life of me can not figure it out. I want to pass arguments/variables to a form to change certain text within the PDF document. Something like this:

http://somesite.com/somefile.pdf?year=2003

Does anyone know if this is a valid feature of Adobe Acrobat... or am I assuming dreaming too much?

Nikkol
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Posted - 30 August 2003 :  23:28:52  Show Profile
i think you have to specify a year like that within the pdf itself, like with a dropdown box or something.

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dayve
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Posted - 30 August 2003 :  23:31:35  Show Profile  Visit dayve's Homepage
so you think it is not possible to pass any arguments to a PDF from a web form?

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Nikkol
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Posted - 30 August 2003 :  23:32:13  Show Profile
i don't know for sure, have you looked on adobe's site?

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dayve
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Posted - 30 August 2003 :  23:40:34  Show Profile  Visit dayve's Homepage
quote:
Originally posted by Nikkol

i don't know for sure, have you looked on adobe's site?



sure have, even looked at the Acrobat Bible and they lead on to features like this, but nothing solid. I've searched the net and resources on this subject seem very limited. It just seems to me that if they incorporated database features in the product, that they would accomodate for passing arguments in the "stateless" environment just as a web page.

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