On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 05:47, MaHan wrote: > -- Peter Linnell > <scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com> schrieb: > On > Sat, 2003-10-18 at 14:08, Maciej Hanski wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I wonder, how much of the "Acrobat JavaScript > > Object Specification" > > > http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/5186AcroJS.pdf > > is supported by Scribus. I've been playing around > > with setting a form field to a specific value, using > > Field Object Methods and Properties which are > > described the specification mentioned above, but I > > haven't succeeded so far. E.g. neither doing this to > > set a form field value: > > > > > > this.getField("field1").value="Bla bla bla"; > > > > > > nor this: > > > > > > var f = this.getField("field1"); > > > f.defaultValue = "Bla bla bla"; > > > > > > works on the form field level (in Field Properties > > -> Calculate -> Custom Calculation Script) or within > > a Global Script (Edit -> Javascripts). I inserted in > > both scripts app.beep(0); and app.alert('Thank you > > for being so kind!'); to check, if they are executed > > at all, and yes, they beep and alert me every time. > > Am I doing something wrong or are these things still > > work in progress? > > > > > > > > > A little OT now. I remember Paul considering once > > a new command line option "scribus --to-pdf > > <scribus.file> <output.pdf>". Since having this > > option would be simply brilliant and almost every > > person whom I told about the PDF form capabilities > > of Scribus asked for it in the first place, I'd like > > to know, how realistic it is to expect this feature > > in the future? > > > > > > > > > Very OT now: I saw the new SuSE 9.0 Professional a > > few hours ago, their description on the box side > > features "DTP with Scribus 1.0" just below "Gimp". > > It looks to me like Scribus was becoming one of > > their key applications. Have a look at their site > > about graphics in SuSE: > > > http://www.suse.com/en/private/products/suse_linux/i386/graphics.html > > :-)) > > > > > > best regards > > > Maciej > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Hello Maciej, > > > > That looks to me like valid scripting from what I > > know of Acrobat > > fields. Mind you it is up to the Reader to interpret > > this correctly. > > > > Could you send a PDF page with this example? Note: > > issues like this is > > where we find bugs in Acro Reader Linux where they > > work properly in > > MacOS or Win32. > > > > Regards, > > Peter > > > > Hi Peter, hi everybody, > I discovered a rather funny thing today while looking > into a Scribus-made PDF form with Acrobat. First I > created with Scribus a form with 2 fields and set > their values in Field Properties -> Calculate -> > Custom Script. Then I exported it to PDF. As many > times before, after opening it with Acrobat Reader the > fields were empty. Then I reopened the Scribus-made > PDF form with Acrobat 5 and checked the scripts in > Acrobat's Field Properties -> Calculate. I couldn't > see any difference apart that there was a square > instead of a line break in the 2nd field's JavaScript. > Then (in Acrobat) I simply cut out the 1st field's > script, inserted the same script again to where it had > been before and saved the changes. After opening it > with Acrobat Reader the fields weren't empty any > more!!! > > Scribus file: > http://linux.hanski.info/static/form_with_default_value_scribus_calculate.sla.gz > > Scribus PDF form: > http://linux.hanski.info/static/form_with_default_value_calculate_scribus.pdf > > The same Scribus PDF form after the Acrobat > "treatment", which I described before: > http://linux.hanski.info/static/form_with_default_value_calculate_scribus_acr.pdf > > Best regards > Maciej
Thanks for the update. Could this be a font or locale issue? I have seen the same type of thing happen with some TT fonts when opening on a Windows or Mac with files created on Linux. Certain characters or glyphs display incorrectly. This is not so much a Linux or Scribus issue, but the the way certain glyphs names in TT fonts do not follow the Latin-1 spec. I found out about this when I first started using Linux and Star Office 5.2. Just a thought. Thanks again, Peter
