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abraham_lincoln on Sept 6, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Breakout implemented in JavaScript in a PDF

I have made some pretty decent JS PDF apps with Acrobat 7 and a SOAP backend.

lgats on Sept 6, 2018 [–]

Can you share an example? I have never found a way to get a PDF to call back to a server (in a non-exploit PDF)

abraham_lincoln on Sept 6, 2018 | [–]

This article is decent.

http://khkonsulting.com/2016/06/getting-serial-number-form-u...

Basically, the backend is a SOAP server and the PDF is the client.

So, xml and wsdl, no json.

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