JavaScript is the cross-platform scripting language of the Adobe Acrobat family of products that includes Acrobat Professional, Acrobat Standard, and Adobe Reader. Through JavaScript extensions, the viewer application and its plug-ins expose much of their functionality to document authors, form designers, and plug-in developers.
This functionality includes the following features, among others:
● Processing forms within the document
● Batch processing collections of PDF documents
● Developing and maintaining online collaboration schemes
● Communicating with local databases
● Controlling multimedia events
In addition to being available in Acrobat and Adobe Reader, the objects, properties, and methods for the Acrobat extensions for JavaScript can also be accessed through Microsoft Visual Basic to automate the processing of PDF documents. See the Interapplication Communication API Reference for details.