Acrobat 9 Reader javascript problem

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7 total messages Started by Guido_Verbeeke Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:50

#2558

Author: Guido_Verbeeke
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:50

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A few months ago our company changed our Acrobat Reader from 8.1.1 to 9.0.0.
Since then we have a problem with a javascript that prints out a few pages from that PDF.

We use the following javascript:

this.print(false, this.pageNum=1,this.pageNum=3);
this.pageNum=0;
app.alert("This document will be printed.",1);

Is there something wrong in our script, or do we have to change the security of Acrobat Reader?
How and where can we do this?

Thanks!

Re: Acrobat 9 Reader javascript problem

#2562

Author: Bernd Alheit
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:54

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Use:

this.print(false, 1, 3);

Make sure that the document contains more than 3 pages.

Re: Acrobat 9 Reader javascript problem

#2564

Author: Guido_Verbeeke
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:29

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I've tried it, but it doesn't change anything.
The script works in Acrobat 7 and 8, but not in Acrobat Reader 9.
The document contains 20 pages.

Re: Acrobat 9 Reader javascript problem

#2566

Author: Bernd Alheit
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:14

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Did you get the dialog with following message:

The document is trying to print. Do you want to allow this?

Re: Acrobat 9 Reader javascript problem

#2577

Author: Guido_Verbeeke
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:44

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Sorry, I've forget to mention about that message.
Yes, we receive that message since Acrobat Reader 9. I've searched for a solution on the web and this forum, but all of the given solutions (scripting) didn't work.

The only way I can make it work is to add the filename as a trusted file in the printing settings menu.
But that's not a solution because then we need to set more than 20 files as 'trusted' on a few thousands pc's.

Re: Acrobat 9 Reader javascript problem

#2578

Author: Bernd Alheit
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:07

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Answer the question "Do you want to allow this?" with Yes.

Re: Acrobat 9 Reader javascript problem

#2500

Author: Guido_Verbeeke
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:34

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Actually we don't want to get that message.
We are looking for a javascript or preference setting to print out a few pages of the PDF by javascript without any warning.

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