I may not be understanding you here. I have Reader, and when I open the resulting pdf (created by PDF::Reuse), I get a blank document. That's how I know that something's wrong - I'm not seeing a form field. Of course I've checked that javascript is enabled, etc.

I agree that the fact that the javascript appears within the pdf file (the strings test) doesn't mean its in the right place, or that its being initialized/called correctly.

Other uses of PDF::Reuse seem to work fine.

Standalone javascript interpreters verify the syntax is ok, although I can't test much else (because the "this" object refers to the Adobe doc object.

A much stripped down javascript examples also failed (I posted a long one since it was from the Tutorial docs, and I didn't want to risk my javascript syntax being the problem).

If I had Acrobat I'd have another way to approach the problem, and I could follow the Adobe docs, etc.

Thanks again, qq

In reply to Re^4: PDF::Reuse - adding javascript by qq
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