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Hi folk
But if you don't know JS <at all>, pick up "JavaScript, The Definitive Guide" by David Flanagan (O'Reilly). <snip> have to use it someday. Flanagan teaches JavaScript as a whole language. Deubert has a good product, too, which will teach you about the use of JS with Acrobat.
The problem is I have neither the time nor inclination to learn a language. I am interested in multimedia presentations that need just a few useful fits of JS code. I have no interest in forms a such and I see that Deubert's book is not about JS in Acrobat but JS for Acrobat _Forms_.
For example, just the code to do a page turn after a sound clip has finished would be an asset. By default an action like that starts as soon as the sound starts.
At the Melbourne presentation that code was obviously used in a demo by Nick Hodge. I asked if he would email it to me and he agreed. Unfortunately he now tells me it was just "internally wired together by engineers, so its not for public consumption".
Not exactly great support. But he added "The documentation will be public within 10 days, and we can go from there."
Does anyone know what "documentation" is in the works?
His statement at the presentation that "Adobe has no idea of what creative guys will do with Acrobat" was fair enough but it seems that will happen in spite of, and not because of what Adobe are doing. An excellent presentation tool without documentation. The Acrobat Master Class book was good as far as it went but it needed another chapter of two.
Regards Merv Leeding
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