The Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) has issued advance notification of pending Acrobat/Reader 7, 8 and 9 security updates to be released next Tuesday, June 9, 2009. This is the first in what will be regular, quarterly security updates as part of Adobe’s security initiatives.
Acrobat/Reader should be prompting you to install the update, as of next Tuesday, and since it covers critical security issues, you should definitely be applying it to your system.
Posted by Stefan Cameron on June 5th, 2009
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Acrobat
Have you ever needed to create data nodes in the Data DOM on-the-fly? How about a need to parse XML obtained from a web service data connection in order to find a value for some property? If that’s the case, then you’ll find-out how to do it in this article.
Creating Data Nodes
In a similar article, John Brinkman showed how to create form variable nodes at runtime however what’s not obvious about data nodes is that you don’t create them using
a class name of your choice.
For example, say you wanted to create the following data node structure:
<custom>
<message>Hello World!</message>
</custom>
Continue reading…
Posted by Stefan Cameron on June 1st, 2009
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CM,
Data Binding,
Instance Manager,
Scripting,
Tables,
Tutorials,
XFA
My friend John Brinkman has posted a really good list of handy form development and debugging tips. Check it out! These tips could save you a lot of time and effort. I use them all the time when I work on forms with Designer, Acrobat and LiveCycle Forms.
One other nice thing about console.println() for outputting debug information to the JavaScript Console in Acrobat is that these strings are also output to the Flash Log when you run form guides generated with LiveCycle ES Update 1 (8.2.1) using the Flash Debug Player. (The 3rd part of my MAX 2008 Tutorial series has details on how to set this up under the “Flash Log and Debug Players” section.)
Posted by Stefan Cameron on May 27th, 2009
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Acrobat,
Debugging,
Designer,
Form Guides,
Script Editor,
Tips
Last Sunday I had the chance to participate in the premier Race Weekend of the Country: The Ottawa Race Weekend.
According to the pre-race announcer for the half marathon, about 37,000 runners from all over the world participated in the weekend’s races (2k, 5k, 10k, half, full) and over 100,000 spectators were expected to line the streets to watch and cheer during the events. That’s a big crowd!
I started training 5 days per week back on Feb 2, 2009. My goal was to complete the half marathon in 1:30:00. I was doing well during the first 10k, holding my 4:15 pace, however I started slowly fading afterward and finished with a respectable 1:36:54 official time. I learned a few things but I still had a great time and enjoyed the race! My official results are here.
Thumbs-up at Rideau and Sussex (about half way)
With my Finisher's Medal just outside Confederation Park
Updated: May 27, 2009
Posted by Stefan Cameron on May 26th, 2009
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General
Adobe recently made available the 9.1.1 security patch. It is recommended that you install it to make sure you’re protected against the latest security issues.
Posted by Stefan Cameron on May 15th, 2009
Filed under
Acrobat
