[Scribus] PDF forms with Scribus

[MaHan]

 --- Peter Linnell
<scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com> schrieb: > On
Sat, 2003-10-18 at 14:08, Maciej Hanski wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I wonder, how much of the "Acrobat JavaScript
> Object Specification"
>
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/5186AcroJS.pdf
> is supported by Scribus. I've been playing around
> with setting a form field to a specific value, using
> Field Object Methods and Properties which are
> described the specification mentioned above, but I
> haven't succeeded so far. E.g. neither doing this to
> set a form field value:
> > 
> > 	this.getField("field1").value="Bla bla bla";
> > 
> > nor this:
> > 
> > 	var f = this.getField("field1");
> > 	f.defaultValue = "Bla bla bla"; 
> > 
> > works on the form field level (in Field Properties
> -> Calculate -> Custom Calculation Script) or within
> a Global Script (Edit -> Javascripts). I inserted in
> both scripts app.beep(0); and app.alert('Thank you
> for being so kind!'); to check, if they are executed
> at all, and yes, they beep and alert me every time.
> Am I doing something wrong or are these things still
> work in progress?
> > 
> > 
> > A little OT now. I remember Paul considering once
> a new command line option "scribus --to-pdf
> <scribus.file> <output.pdf>". Since having this
> option would be simply brilliant  and  almost every
> person whom I told about the PDF form capabilities
> of Scribus asked for it in the first place, I'd like
> to know, how realistic it is to expect this feature
> in the future?
> > 
> > 
> > Very OT now: I saw the new SuSE 9.0 Professional a
> few hours ago, their description on the box side
> features "DTP with Scribus 1.0" just below "Gimp".
> It looks to me like Scribus was becoming one of
> their key applications. Have a look at their site
> about graphics in SuSE:
>
http://www.suse.com/en/private/products/suse_linux/i386/graphics.html
> :-))
> > 
> > best regards
> > Maciej
> > 
> >
>
______________________________________________________________________
> Hello  Maciej,
> 
> That looks to me like valid scripting from what I
> know of Acrobat
> fields. Mind you it is up to the Reader to interpret
> this correctly.
> 
> Could you send a PDF page with this example? Note:
> issues like this is
> where we find bugs in Acro Reader Linux where they
> work properly in
> MacOS or Win32.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 

Hi Peter, hi everybody,
I discovered a rather funny thing today while looking
into a Scribus-made PDF form with Acrobat. First I
created with Scribus a form with 2 fields and set
their values in Field Properties -> Calculate ->
Custom Script. Then I exported it to PDF. As many
times before, after opening it with Acrobat Reader the
fields were empty. Then I reopened the Scribus-made
PDF form with Acrobat 5 and checked the scripts in
Acrobat's Field Properties -> Calculate. I couldn't
see any difference apart that there was a square
instead of a line break in the 2nd field's JavaScript.
Then (in Acrobat) I simply cut out the 1st field's
script, inserted the same script again to where it had
been before and saved the changes. After opening it
with Acrobat Reader the fields weren't empty any
more!!! 

Scribus file:
http://linux.hanski.info/static/form_with_default_value_scribus_calculate.sla.gz

Scribus PDF form:
http://linux.hanski.info/static/form_with_default_value_calculate_scribus.pdf

The same Scribus PDF form after the Acrobat
"treatment", which I described before: 
http://linux.hanski.info/static/form_with_default_value_calculate_scribus_acr.pdf

Best regards
Maciej








__________________________________________________________________

Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de
Logos und Klingelt?ne f?rs Handy bei http://sms.yahoo.de