User manual of VeryPDF Javascript to PDF Embedder Command Line

JavaScript is the cross-platform scripting language of the Adobe Acrobat family of products that includes Acrobat Professional, Acrobat Standard, and Adobe Reader. Through JavaScript extensions, the viewer application and its plug-ins expose much of their functionality to document authors, form designers, and plug-in developers.

With VeryPDF Javascript to PDF Embedder Command Line software, you can embed Javascript code into PDF files easily, you can run Javascript code when executing open/close PDF document, before/after PDF printing, before/after PDF saving, etc. actions.

1. Download and install	2. Command line examples
3. Command options	4. Acrobat Javascript API Reference Documents

Download and install

VeryPDF Javascript to PDF Embedder Command Line is a portable application, and it does not need to install. Download the package, unpack it to the disk, open a command prompt window in Windows system, and then you may run it.

Command line examples

The usage rule of the program is

addjs2pdf.exe [options] <PDF-file> [<PDF-file>]

In this command line, "addjs2pdf.exe" is the executable file, field of options is for specifying options, the first "<PDF-file>" indicates an input PDF file, the second "<PDF-file>" indicates an output PDF file. The following command line will insert Javascript codes to document open/close, before/after document printing, before/after document saving six actions, input PDF file is help.pdf and output PDF file is output.pdf file, and show the processing information to console.

addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen js-runat-open.txt -runatclose js-runat-close.txt 
-runbfprint js-runat-before-printing.txt -runafprint js-runat-after-printing.txt 
-runbfsave js-runat-before-saving.txt    -runafsave js-runat-after-saving.txt 
help.pdf output.pdf

The following are more command line examples,

addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen js-full.txt help.pdf help_full_js.pdf

addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen js-runat-open-printing-remove-watermark.txt 
-runbfprint js-runat-before-printing-add-watermark.txt 
-runafprint js-runat-after-printing-remove-watermark.txt 
help.pdf print-with-watermark.pdf

addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen js-runat-open-watermark.txt help.pdf show-watermark.pdf

addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen CreatePageBookmarks.txt help.pdf create_bookmarks.pdf

addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen js-set-expiration-date.txt help.pdf expiration_date.pdf

addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen js-hide-buttons.txt help.pdf hide-buttons.pdf

Command options

VeryPDF Javascript to PDF Embedder Command Line is easy to use, and it has these options:

D:\>addjs2pdf.exe
VeryPDF Javascript to PDF Embedder Command Line v3.0 (addjs2pdf.exe)
Add Javascript to Existing PDF files.
add-js-to-pdf, use it to add embedded JavaScript to a PDF document that 
will execute automatically when the document is opened, printed or saved.
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Product Name: VeryPDF Javascript to PDF Embedder Command Line v3.0
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Support: http://support.verypdf.com
Email: support@verypdf.com
Usage: addjs2pdf.exe [options] <PDF-file> [<PDF-file>]
  -runatopen <string> : Run javascript code or js file at document opening
  -runatclose <string>: Run javascript code or js file at before document closing
  -runbfprint <string>: Run javascript code or js file at before printing
  -runafprint <string>: Run javascript code or js file at after printing
  -runbfsave <string> : Run javascript code or js file at before saving
  -runafsave <string> : Run javascript code or js file at after saving
  -js <string>        : same as -runatopen parameter
  -opw <string>       : owner password (for encrypted files)
  -upw <string>       : user password (for encrypted files)
  -h                  : print usage information
  -help               : print usage information
  --help              : print usage information
  -?                  : print usage information
  -$ <string>         : input your license key
Examples:
  addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen "app.alert('Test', 1, 0);" D:\test.pdf D:\out.pdf
  addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen D:\js.txt D:\test.pdf D:\out.pdf
  addjs2pdf.exe -runatopen D:\js.txt -runatclose D:\js.txt D:\test.pdf D:\out.pdf
  addjs2pdf.exe -runbfprint D:\addwatermark.js -runafprint removewatermark.js 
                D:\test.pdf D:\out.pdf
  addjs2pdf.exe -runbfsave D:\ad
dwatermark.js -runafsave removewatermark.js 
                D:\test.pdf D:\out.pdf
  addjs2pdf.exe -$ XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX -runatopen D:\js.txt D:\test.pdf D:\out.pdf
  addjs2pdf.exe -js D:\js.txt D:\test.pdf D:\out.pdf
  addjs2pdf.exe -$ XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX