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Date sent: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:32:26 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Merv Leeding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PDF] js HELP Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > 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. > All you have to do is time the sound clip and pause your code for that length of time while it plays. Contact me off list if you want a bit of code to do that. > 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 > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > -- Matthew Fitzgerald Byte Ryte bv Oudegracht 219 NL 3511 NH Tel: +31 (0)30 2380023 Fax: +31 (0)30 2380076 http://www.byteryte.nl To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
