Tungsten Power PDF 5.1 JavaScript Reference Guide

Power PDF has a built in JavaScript engine providing scripting capabilities for designers of interactive PDF documents, for plug-in developers or form designers. The engine covers most of the functionality of the software, making possible to script:

• Form processing
• Batch processing
• Data import and export

This provides a toolset to automate the above features and can make documents "interactive" with the user to improve productivity, minimise errors and to some degree give PDF documents some "intelligence".

This document refers to the following sources:

• PDF Reference version 1.7
• XFA Specification, Version 2.2

Additional notes:

• The ideal reader is familiar with basic JavaScript 1.6 programming concepts such as variables, decisions, cycles, properties, methods, objects, and events. This guide is not a textbook for JavaScript programming but requires the reader to understand programming on a beginner level at least.
• The knowledge of the Power PDF user interface is required to manage to build scenarios for examples. Not required, but advantageous to know the PDF file format structure.