They say it takes more than 10,000 hours of experience to become an expert in any field. I have been living and breathing Adobe Acrobat Professional since 2004 (The name changed to Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and recently back to Acrobat Pro. All will hereafter be referred to as "Acrobat" or "Acrobat Pro"). I have exceeded 10,000 hours many years ago. Despite having no prior programming knowledge or formal computer training I became an expert at Acrobat and the programming language used to make it hum....Read more

Back on October 9, I wrote about the new Acrobat Pro User Interface, and how it was causing problems for users. Adobe had at least left a menu item to "Disable new Acrobat" so users could immediately return to the interface they had grown accustomed to over decades....Read more

My first thought was that he had been scammed into purchasing a counterfeit version of Adobe Acrobat Pro. Sure enough, there was no File, Edit, View, Help menu at the top. Nothing looked familiar. It looked like he was in a web browser, not a local software program. The keystroke shortcut to open the JavaScript console, Ctrl + j, did nothing....Read more

Not every project fits an existing template. Oftentimes a custom solution is required, and changes need to be made on the fly. In these cases, I get hired to complete the project myself instead of selling or renting a software solution. I love a good challenge. The project I'm about to describe was one of the most challenging and also the most fulfilling. It was an investment-advisor-switching-dealers project as described previously, but with a lot of unique circumstances....Read more

I researched some more and found the buttons could be programmed with JavaScript to execute the same processes that were being called by the menu items. The scripts worked on both versions, and I realized the scripts would never change no matter how many times they changed the wording of the menu items. I would have to replace all of the buttons with the Run a JavaScript mouse-up action instead of Execute a menu item. While researching this button fix, I learned something very important. Almost anything you can do with the User Interface in Acrobat Professional you can also do with a script, which makes automation of repetitive tasks possible....Read more

Well, Adobe has finally added popup calendar functionality to PDF forms. It is so easy to install. All you have to do is format the field as a date fill and the calendar is automatically installed. There is one caveat though: It will only work for end users who are running a DC version of an...Read more