Hi, I have Adobe Acrobat 5. Is there an online tutorial that would get me started Thanks. Reading And Modifying PDF Form Fields with VBAIve written about VBA and Acrobat Java. Script before, and Ive also mentioned that you can combine VBA and Java. Flatten Pdf Javascript NotesScript to access PDF form fields, but I still owe a sample for that. I had to answer another question today about how to exactly do that, so I whipped up a quick sample program that demonstrates the use of the Java. Script Object JSO to read and write Acro. Flatten Pdf Javascript' title='Flatten Pdf Javascript' />Form fields. We start the same way as in my old VBA sample to create a VBA program that references the Acrobat TLB and to add a button to a document. Prep School Access Program'>Prep School Access Program. When we now use the following script as the button handler, we can work with form fields Private Sub Command. Button. 1Click. Dim Acro. App As Acrobat. CAcro. App. Dim the. Form As Acrobat. CAcro. PDDoc. Dim jso As Object. Dim text. 1, text. As String. Set Acro. App Create. ObjectAcro. Exch. App. Set the. Flatten Pdf Javascript FunctionForm Create. ObjectAcro. Exch. PDDoc. the. Form. Open C tempsample. Looking for two procedures 1 remove selectall form fields from a PDF 2 flatten a PDF document regardless of forms, annotations, comments, etc. Reza explains how we can use PDFtk to fill out PDF forms programmatically, and then builds a class around the functionality to make things even easierForm. Set jso the. Form. Get. JSObject. Text. Text. FieldText. 1. Value. text. 2 jso. FieldText. 2. Value. Msg. Box Values read from PDF text. Dim field. 2 As Object. Set field. 2 jso. Programs To Clone Hard Drive more. FieldText. 2. Value 1. Text. 1 and Text. FieldText. 1. Value. FieldText. 2. Value. Msg. Box Values read from PDF text. Form. Close. Acro. App. Exit. Set Acro. App Nothing. Set the. Form Nothing. Msg. Box Done. This program requires a PDF file with text fields called Text. Text. 2 to be stored as C tempsample. Form. pdf. With the explanation in the previous two blog posts, it should not be hard to understand whats going on here. The only new command introduced is the get. Field function, which returns a form field. The form field object has a property value which contains the actual value thats assigned to the field. Give it a try and let me know how it works for you. The updated form field is not saved because the document does not get saved Ill leave that up to the reader to figure out. Also, this program will not work with XFA forms the ones you create in Designer. For those, you need to use the XFA DOM to access the form data. For anybody interested in XFA forms, the Life. Cycle Designer ES Scripting Reference is a must read.