[Tfug] Scripting PDF's

[Yan]

(When viewed in at least Adobe Acrobat,) PDFs support JavaScript. It's
quite a nuisance, due to the number of security vulnerabilities it leads
to, but it's a fact of life. You can find more information here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9219807/using-javascript-inside-a-pdf.
There are a few good links there, including some howtos and a document
reference. Other viewers support (possibly a subset of) JavaScript as well,
but you'll probably have to test them to make sure.


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
>
> On 7/9/2013 9:00 PM, Robert Hunter wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  What I'm trying to do is find a "document format" (e.g., PDF in
>>> this case) that lets me create "active" documents that aren't
>>> restricted to "static text and graphics".
>>>
>>
>> Let me get this straight.  You want to create an AI tutor with highly
>> interactive mind-blowing audio visual gidga-ma-gadgets, and deliver it in
>> a
>> format that anyone can use?  World. Wide. Web.
>>
>
> Has to fit in a *single* file.  Has to reproduce *as* I intend it.
> I.e., no worries that things won't "layout" properly; that a particular
> font will be present on the user's system (I intentionally embed
> all the special fonts that I use *in* my PDF's).  And I have to *know*
> that every user's "browser"/viewer will have all the right "plugins"
> to support the encodings that the document uses.
>
> E.g., I can't (by choice) view SWF's in my browser.  No Flash installed,
> here.  (I'm not keen on YouTube and other "advertisements")
>
> Can you rely on every browser to have a media player app installed
> alongside the browser with the right mime types mapped to that player
> so that it could "play" the audio snippets in my speech synthesizer
> document?  Can you rely on Java being enabled in every browser?
>
> I.e., PDF's work -- assuming you are using Adobe's product -- because
> I only use capabilities that the PDF *reader* provides; no reliance on
> "add-ons".  (hence my initial question regarding third party readers
> and their support for some of these more "esoteric" capabilities in
> PDF's)  The only "requirement" I have to convey to the user is
> "must be viewed with Adobe Reader 9 or later".
>
>
> --don
>
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