Subj : Re: Javascript in PDFs
To   : Ronald Kent Gibson <Kent.Gibson@icongmbh.de>
From : Igor Bukanov <igor@fastmail.fm>
Date : Thu Mar 11 2004 07:24 pm

Ronald Kent Gibson wrote:
> Dear Java & Rhino Gurus,
> 
> I want to somehow emulate the behaviour of embedded javascript in pdf's in
> java.
> 
> For example a user has a pdf that represents a form, a user enters a value
> into a form field and then voila a total field is updated.
> 
> Does any one have any grand design ideas or know of any implementations
> worth looking at?

It should not be that difficult as JS in PDF can access only a 
relatively small number of host objects which is straightforward to 
implement. The real problem is to have a dynamic PDF viewer that allows 
to update on-screen presentation without regenerating the whole PDF.

So which PDF viewer your are going to use?

Regards, Igor

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