James,

I had a project that was sort of similar, in that I needed to calculate what
otherwise was an Excel spreadsheet (dang! it sure would be nice if the
Create PDF macro was also able to read the cell calculation strings and
convert them to JavaScript but---hey, wait! I'm going to be taking Visual
Basic and Java next term, so maybe I'll figure it out on my own and stop
doing this stuff!).

I went to www.pdfzone.com and did a search for calculations. What was posted
there from Ted Padova didn't really relate to my project, but gave me enough
insight to figure it out for myself.

essentially, you can create a custom calculation that

a. Defines a variable "n" based on the contents of a field.
b. Define additional variables based either on another field or on their
own.
c. run this as a calculation.

Scott Olswold
Senior Systems Support Engineer
Danka Office Imaging
MCSE, CNA 5, A+, Network+, Adobe Certified Expert (PageMaker and Photoshop)

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