Author Archives: Chris Dahl

Chris is the Chief Technology Officer at Nitro PDF Software, and has been involved with PDF since 2001 when he started designing and supporting Acrobat plug-ins with ARTS PDF. Following this he was running ARTS PDF Global Services, providing custom PDF software development services. In 2005 he played a major role in the launch of Nitro PDF Professional, and in 2007 became Chief Technology Officer, overseeing all product development and technical support at Nitro PDF Software.

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Setup a field to display the date X days from today

August 27, 2009 – 4:27 pm

A user just requested a new feature over on our Customer Connect site, to be able to display ‘future dates’ in text fields.
I would like to be able to format a field for x number of days from todays date.
Lucky for them, this is already possible via some custom JavaScript code, using the Date object.
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Setting default colors & styles for comments

March 4, 2009 – 11:01 pm

If you find yourself changing the color of the PDF markup annotations in Nitro Pro repetitively, then please read on. There *is* a way for you to set the default properties for a particular type of markup annotation (this also works for form fields too BTW).
1. Create your comment/markup.
2. Right click, go to Properties and [...]

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AIIM study on PDF usage in organizations

January 22, 2009 – 3:13 pm

An AIIM study into the usage of PDF in organizations has found that 90% of organizations are already using PDF to store and archive their documents, as reported by GCN.
The introduction of PDF/A (a subset of the PDF spec, designed for long term document archiving – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A) would be one of the main contributors to [...]

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Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript.

November 23, 2008 – 8:12 pm

D.P. Story has published a blog Processing Acrobat Forms using JavaScript over at the AcroText PDF Blog.
This looks like the first in a number of blogs covering this very wide topic. There are so many possible things you can achieve using PDF form fields and JavaScript, that there is the potential for many more blogs [...]

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