Thanks to all who helped resolve the problem PDF issue. It turned out to
be the users' machines just couldn't handle the high res version. Our
staff had sent them the press-ready PDF. Once we made it lower res it
worked great. Thanks for your help!

Pam Clifford
Technology Project Manager
Technology Department
Group Publishing, Inc.
970-292-4262


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Acrobat Talk Digest #128

1) Re: JavaScript for Form Field: If-Then Actions
by Matthew Fitzgerald <matthewf@byteryte.nl>
2) Problems with PDF file
by Pam Clifford <pclifford@GroupPublishing.com>
3) Re: Problems with PDF file
by Dov Isaacs <isaacs@adobe.com>
4) High resolution graphic? * Re: Problems with PDF file
by "Phil Thompson" <lucyfer@msn.com.au>

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Message-ID: <48AD5554.7090708@byteryte.nl>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:45:24 +0200
From: Matthew Fitzgerald <matthewf@byteryte.nl>
Subject: Re: JavaScript for Form Field: If-Then Actions
In-Reply-To: <list-5301314@mail2.starmark.com>

Deborah Calvet wrote:
> Acrobat Professional 8 for Macintosh
> OS X Leopard, latest version
>
> *****
>
> I'm not a JavaScripter or any kind of scripter. I can do if-then
formulas in
> MS Excel, but that doesn't help me with Acrobat form fields!
>
> The simple representation below is for illustration. "RD" indicates a
radio
> button; all of the RDs are mutually exclusive (don't need help with
that).
>
> I need a JavaScript to enter into the Text Field Properties in, I
believe,
> the "Custom calculation script" box. For Field A, the script would say
> something like "If Option A is checked, enter $XXX; if Option A is
cleared,
> clear this field." I need similar scripts for the other fields, of
course.
>
> Maybe that's not really the script I need. Here's what I do need: a
result
> that when the form's user clicks the radio button for any option, the
only
> field that will contain a number will be the one that corresponds to
the
> radio button that's checked.
>
> RD Option A $[field A]
> RD Option B $[field B]
> RD Option C $[field C]
>

If I understand the problem well, then something like this - as a
docuemnt-level script - should work. The Mouse Up event on each of the
radio buttons is simply a call to this function, that is
"handleradiobuttons();" (without the quotes).

The radio buttons each have an export value of 0, 1 or 2, and the text
fields are called Txt0, Txt1 and Txt2.

The values to be shown when a radio button is pressed are held in the
array txtstrings.

function handleradiobuttons()
{
txtstrings = new Array();
txtstrings[0] = "first text";
txtstrings[1] = "second text";
txtstrings[2] = "third text";
for(var i=0; i<3; i++)
{
var tfield = this.getField("Txt"+i);
tfield.value = "";
}
var radioexport = this.getField(event.targetName);
var tfield = this.getField("Txt"+radioexport.value);
tfield.value = txtstrings[radioexport.value];
}




> I know this is simple, but Acrobat's built-in Help documentation is
> spectacularly unhelpful in this area. It refers the reader to PDF
guides (on
> Adobe.com) that are frustratingly complex for someone like me.
>
> I would greatly any help you Acrobat experts could give.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Debi
>
>
> --
> Debi Calvet, Principal
> AdvantGroup LLC
> 522 N. Pageant Dr. Unit B
> Orange CA 92869-2546
> 714 997 9692
>
> Visuals that speak. Words that illustrate.
> www.advantgroup.biz
>
>
>


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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:54:43 -0600
Subject: Problems with PDF file
From: Pam Clifford <pclifford@GroupPublishing.com>
Message-ID: <C4D34043.113D5%pclifford@GroupPublishing.com>

We have a teacher guide product we produce in InDesign, then convert to
PDF
for our customers to download. This time, 3 of our customers (2 on PC, 1
on
Mac), have let us know that on one of the pages what they're seeing
instead
of the illustration is a big black box (takes up appx 20% of the page).

The files are updated every 2 years. That means the original files were
done
in Quark, then converted to INDD, and now in CS3, using Acrobat 8 to
create
the files. To save time on our end, we're posting the press-ready PDFs,
one
doc with appx 172pp.

Anyone know of a reason this black box could be appearing? And why it'd
only
be a problem for some of them and not all of them. They look fine here,
and
they print fine at the printer. Thanks for your help.


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From: Dov Isaacs <isaacs@adobe.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:03:40 -0700
Subject: RE: Problems with PDF file
Message-ID:
<655E24FA2E54914AB2886E0633C00F2A26E77E3741@NAMBX02.corp.adobe.com>
In-Reply-To: <list-5305772@mail2.starmark.com>

Exactly what are the viewers who have "problems" using to view the PDF
file in?
Program (Reader, Acrobat, etc.)? What versions?

- Dov

PS: Generally speaking, Adobe recommends direct PDF export from
InDesign as
opposed to distilling PostScript!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Acrobat Talk [mailto:acrobat@lists.lassosoft.com] On Behalf Of
Pam Clifford
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:55 PM
> To: Acrobat Talk
> Subject: Problems with PDF file
>
> We have a teacher guide product we produce in InDesign, then convert
to PDF
> for our customers to download. This time, 3 of our customers (2 on PC,
1 on
> Mac), have let us know that on one of the pages what they're seeing
instead
> of the illustration is a big black box (takes up appx 20% of the
page).
>
> The files are updated every 2 years. That means the original files
were done
> in Quark, then converted to INDD, and now in CS3, using Acrobat 8 to
create
> the files. To save time on our end, we're posting the press-ready
PDFs, one
> doc with appx 172pp.
>
> Anyone know of a reason this black box could be appearing? And why
it'd only
> be a problem for some of them and not all of them. They look fine
here, and
> they print fine at the printer. Thanks for your help.

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Message-ID: <8397ABD71EDA4231883A91CD04DF7AC1@pjtPC>
Reply-To: "Phil Thompson" <lucyfer@msn.com.au>
From: "Phil Thompson" <lucyfer@msn.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <list-5305772@mail2.starmark.com>
Subject: High resolution graphic? * Re: Problems with PDF file
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:52:28 +1000

Pam,
Without seeing your page perhaps the underpowered video cards on the
problem
computers cannot show the higher resolution graphic; so it is replaced
with
the black box. Often in Acrobat 8 a self made hi rez .SWF Flash popup
would
show this behaviour. However when the graphic was remade at a lower
resolution things would be OK. Otherwise my computer here is recent and
well
specified with updated drivers. That would be my guess about the issue.
Perhaps having the viewers upgrade their video card drivers may help?
Phil.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Clifford" <pclifford@GroupPublishing.com>
To: "Acrobat Talk" <acrobat@lists.lassosoft.com>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:54 AM
Subject: Problems with PDF file


> We have a teacher guide product we produce in InDesign, then convert
to
> PDF
> for our customers to download. This time, 3 of our customers (2 on PC,
1
> on
> Mac), have let us know that on one of the pages what they're seeing
> instead
> of the illustration is a big black box (takes up appx 20% of the
page).
>
> The files are updated every 2 years. That means the original files
were
> done
> in Quark, then converted to INDD, and now in CS3, using Acrobat 8 to
> create
> the files. To save time on our end, we're posting the press-ready
PDFs,
> one
> doc with appx 172pp.
>
> Anyone know of a reason this black box could be appearing? And why
it'd
> only
> be a problem for some of them and not all of them. They look fine
here,
> and
> they print fine at the printer. Thanks for your help.
>
>
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