PRODOK Engineering is a
development and design
company based in Switzerland, with clients worldwide.
Since 1995, we have specialized in Smart PDF,
intelligent electronic forms,
and clean, functional web sites.
Latest news
2 September 2010
A long time off...
by Max Wyss
This site has indeed been badly neglected.
However, it will come back up with more and better updates soon, as new products and concepts are emerging.
So, thanks for your patience, and watch this space.
PDFfolio: A complete toolkit for adding brains to PDF documents
PDFfolio is a collection of tools and methods developed by PRODOK Engineering for cataloging large collections of PDF documents. It transparently “injects” data from a database into a PDF, making it searchable and sortable.
Find out more, or take a look at some case studies.
Latest articles
12 February 2007
One-Liner of the week: Randomly random
by Max Wyss
Quite regularly, there is a question on the mailing lists about random numbers, mainly for a unique identifier for a document.
Such random numbers are indeed not a big problem to implement, because JavaScript has the Math Object (because it is part of the Core, it is not described in the Acrobat JavaScript documentation), which contains the Math.random() method.
28 January 2007
One-liner of the Week: Simple Time Calculation
by Max Wyss
filed under: articles • calculation • JavaScript • OLOW • one-liner • time calculation • tips and tricks
Resently a member of the PlanetPDF forum asked about a way to calculate the time difference between two times indicated in a drop down menu. The times in the drop down menu represent quarter hours (0:00, 0:15, 0:30, 0:45, 1:00, etc.).
(Acrobat) JavaScript provides some extensive time (and date) related functionality in the Date object of the Core. However, using this object is sometimes a bit awkward, and requires some scripting: First, the time strings must be converted to a valid date object. Then, the subtraction is executed. And finally, the result is converted to the desired output string.
9 October 2006
Why "Optimizing for Fast Web View" is not optimal for PDF forms
by Max Wyss
It has been one of the “little secrets” of Acrobat since version 4, that loading a fillable form under the browser can take quite a long time, or that all of a sudden the form does not react for some time.