About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 5/21/2007 Subject: Auto filling in date field
Question Is there any way to set up a text field so the current date automatically fills in when the document is opened? Thanks!
Answer Certainly - Can I will assume that you have Adobe Acrobat Pro and perhaps may not be all that familiar with the Adobe Life Cycle Designer that you can use - in Adobe Acrobat, go under the Advanced menu, Select Forms then cascade select Create New Form - Once you are there with a new document, go into the Library, select Date/Time Field, click and drag (to create the form field) then in the Object, in Value, for Type; select Calculated/read-only and for Runtime property; select Current date/time.
Hope this helps !
I can e-mail you a small sample PDF file that does this if you send a request to michaelejahn@gmail.com
