Is there a good reference for Acrobat JavaScripting --one written by someone who does not assume that you've worked with Acrobat for 10-years? Like maybe Acrobat Java scripting for Dummies? --Doug Horn

Have you checked out “Extending Acrobat Forms with JavaScript” by John Deubert? It’s written for beginners to JavaScript with Acrobat, and has examples and walks you through them. Descriptions and reviews can be found on Amazon.com. Haven’t seen a Dummies book yet. –Dimitri

Another is Creating Acrobat Forms by Ted Padova. It has a JavaScript section and cut'n'paste on a companion CD, also on Amazon. – Bill

The Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Reference and Guide (that's how it is called for Acrobat 6) is an absolute necessity for working with Acrobat JavaScript. Period. It is a developer documentation, which means that essentially every sentence is important, and you will get punished in some ways if you don't completely read the entries about a given property or method. ... trust me, experience proves that.

However, this is not the complete set of objects Acrobat JavaScript contains. It is built upon the JavaScript 1.5 Core, which is documented on the developer section of the Netscape website (the exact link is given in the Acrobat JavaScript scripting Reference and Guide).

One of my recommendations for this is the JavaScript Visual Quickstart Guide by Dori Smith, published by Peachpit Press. Also, the best reference book for JavaScript is Flanagan's JavaScript, the Ultimate Reference, published by O'Reilly (that's the one with the Rhino on the cover). This book is a reference, but it does pretty properly separate Core and Webbrowser Extensions, which means that you easily can see what you can skip (or look at in order to see some JavaScript programming style). –Max Wyss

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