Some additional thoughts. I guess what I am thinking of is set up a page with form fields that have the JavaScript(s) in them or in a button that would run the calculations and output the results in some other fields. There is even a report object in the Acrobat JavaScript specs that may be able to be used to build a new page with the results that could be printed. Then everything is one complete package without having to access anything else on a remote host. There is even the capability of JavaScripting a custom dialog in Acrobat that could contain radio buttons, check boxes, buttons, dropdown lists, text fields, list fields etc. that could be used as a calculator. And then of course there is the Flash capability in Acrobat 9. I'm not a Flash developer but a flash widget could be added to an Acrobat 9 PDF to run the kind of stuff we are talking about.
Steven On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:28 PM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>wrote: > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 09:47:39 am Steven Dayton wrote: > > NIce eBook. It would be nice if the cover calculator was built > > into the PDF. > > > > Steven > > Interesting thought. Given a remote host for the e-book that belongs > to someone else I am not sure if that would be feasible. There has > to be an external program somewhere to do the calcs and return them > to another page. AFAIK pdf does not encapsulate javascript or perl > or php. > > In the e-Book the addy of the calculator site is a clickable URL. > That is a one-way street it is true but the e-book could remain on > screen while the data is printed out. As a practical matter you > want a print out anyhow. > -- > John Culleton > Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090721/f2614594/attachment.htm>
