Acrobat JavaScript Tools
Specifying the Default JavaScript Editor
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Specifying the Default JavaScript Editor
You may choose whether to use the built-in JavaScript Editor that comes with Acrobat, or
an external JavaScript editor of your choice. To set the default editor, invoke the
Preferences
dialog box as shown in
Figure 2.1
Figure 2.8
below:
1.
Choose
Edit > Preferences
to open the
Preferences
dialog box.
2.
Select
JavaScript
from the list of options on the left side of the dialog box.
This brings up the
Preferences
dialog box.
3.
In the
JavaScript Editor
section, select the editor you would like to use.
F
IGURE
2.8
Selecting the Editor in Preferences
The
Acrobat JavaScript Editor
option sets the built-in Acrobat JavaScript Editor as the
default.
The
External JavaScript Editor
option sets an external editor as the default. To choose
this option, click
Browse...
to specify the path to the desired JavaScript editor.
N
OTE
:
For some external editors, Acrobat provides extra command line options for
invoking the editor. For details, see
Additional Editor Capabilities.
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