With Adobe Acrobat it is possible to add Adobe jscripting to PDF files.
After researching a bit I found (correct me if i'm wrong) it is not
possible
to use external COM/OLE objects from Acrobat JScript like it is in
HTML/IE.
Only the internal Reader/Plugin objects: doc, search, fullscreen,
bookmark
From what I remember of the subject, which it's quite a while since I
looked at it, you can't do this with any of the well-known FO
processors, the only chance I would think you would have is with Adobe's
and then using an extension function of course.
Also From what I remember you can't create Objects but I think you might
be able to Get objects.
At any rate scriptable PDFS, which I personally think has to be one of
the dumbest ideas in the history of programming not created by me, are
implemented using a form of ecmascript, not per se the jscript of IE,
-here's a short description of the scripting from a presentation at
pdfsages.com on 'interactive documents':
Complete JavaScript/ECMAScript 1.5 implementation based on the Netscape
"SpiderMonkey" library.
-Supports all "core" objects & methods
-Acrobat-specific DOM
.Does NOT include any "browser" DOM!
-Runs in a "sandbox"
.No access to file system, system configuration or Network
here's the original presentation:
http://www.pdfsages.com/downloads/PDF%20Best%20Practices%20-%20Interacti
ve%20Documents.pdf
it seems pdfsages has some tools for working with interactive pdfs,
might help you out.
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