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PDF Action
An PDF Action defines the
actions to be taken in response to various trigger events affecting the
document as a whole. You can add the most common PDF actions into your
PDF document:
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No Action
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Open a Web Link
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Reset a Form
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Submit a Form
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Run a Javascript
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Named Action
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Go to Local Page
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Go to Another PDF
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Launch Application or Document
1. No Action
2. Open a Web Link
A
uniform resource identifier (URI) is a
string that identifies (resolves to) a resource on the
Internet—typically a file that is the destination of a hypertext link.
Here are some examples to
open a Web or Email Link:
http://www.pdfill.com
ftp://ftp.pdfill.com
mailto:support@pdfill.com?subject=my subject
mailto:support@pdfill.com?subject=my subject&cc=barfoo@foobar.com&bcc=secretfoo@bar.com&body=type
body line here
3. Reset a Form
A
reset-form action resets the entire
interactive form fields to their default values.
4. Submit a Form
PDF
forms as well as HTML forms can be used in
a transaction between an end user and the form provider, but the
approach between the two types of interactive forms is quite different.
If your form is short—for instance, a two-box login form—you should
prefer HTML over PDF. A PDF
form is typically preferred when you want to keep the layout of an
existing paper form: Some people
fill in the form online, whereas other people print it and fill it in
manually. HTML forms don’t look
nice when printed out.
You must put your PDF Form under
your Web Server to avoid "Html/text" error. Also, Adobe Reader 7.0 and
later is recommended for submit.
4.1. Submit a Form In
FDF Format
Forms Data Format (FDF) is
the file format used for interactive form data . FDF is used when
submitting form data to a server,
receiving the response, and incorporating it into the interactive form.
It can also be used to export form data to stand-alone files that can be
stored, transmitted electronically, and imported back into the
corresponding PDF interactive form.
In your server, you can
easily save the raw data as a FDF. You can save it into your database or
let the client user to download this new FDF. The user can save this FDF
with the original PDF form. When this FDF is open,
the original PDF form is filled and ready to print.
PDFill Provides
FREE Form Data Submit
Services:
http://www.pdfill.com/example/submit/fdf_submit_free.php
You can ask your client
user to email the very compact FDF file instead of the entire PDF Form.
Instead, you can follow
use this link to test your FDF submit:
http://www.pdfill.com/example/submit/fdf_submit_free.php. Please see
this
example
PHP Code
to handle this Online PDF Form Data submitted in HTML Format.
4.2. Submit a Form In
HTML Format
The data in your form is submitted
to the server as an HTML POST. You
can retrieve the parameters from
the request object as if it is a HTML form. Please see
this example
PHP Code
to handle this Online PDF Form Data submitted in HTML Format.
You can easily save the filled
data into excel, Text,
FDF, XFDF,
or database in your server.
4.3. Submit a Form In
XFDF Format
XML Forms Data Format(XFDF), a version of
FDF based on XML. XFDF is described in the Adobe technical note XML
Forms Data Format Specification, Version 2.0. XML is described in
the W3C document Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1).
You can use any XML parser to get the field names and their
values. Please see
this example
PHP Code
to handle this Online PDF Form Data submitted in XPDF Format.
5. Run a Javascript
Here are some
examples:
| JavaScript |
Function |
| this.print(true) |
Print the PDF document |
| app.alert('Hello!') |
Give a message |
| this.getField("Text3").value =
this.getField("Text1").value + this.getField("Text2").value |
Add Simple Calculation |
6. Named Action
PDF viewers support a list of
named actions
that can be created with
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First Page
— Jumps to
the first page
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Previous Page
— Jumps to
the previous page
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Next Page
— Jumps to
the next page
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Last Page
— Jumps to the last page
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Print Dialog
— Opens a
dialog box for printing
7. Go to Local Page
Display the page, with the coordinates
(left, top) positioned at the top-left corner of the window and the
contents of the page magnified by the factor zoom. A negative value for
any of the parameters left or top, or a zoom value of 0 specifies that
the current value of that parameter is to be retained unchanged.
Page Number - a specific page
number
Left
- the left value. A value of 0 or negative keeps the current value.
Top
- the top value. A value of 0 or negative keeps the current value.
Zoom
- The zoom factor. A value of 0 or negative keeps the current value.
8. Go to Another PDF
Page Number: a specific page
number
PDF Path Name: The path name of a
remote PDF file
9. Launch Application or Document
A launch action launches an application or
opens or prints a document.
Application
- the application to be launched or the document to be opened or
printed.
Parameters
- (Windows-specific) A parameter string to be passed to the
application. It can be
empty.
Operation
- (Windows-specific) the operation to perform: "open" - Open a
document, "print" - Print a document. It can be
empty.
DefaultDir
- (Windows-specific) the default directory in standard DOS syntax. It
can be
empty.
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