Comments on: Developing Acrobat JavaScript on a MacBook

By: khk

khk — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:10:13 +0000

Rich, this may work on older MacBooks, but the new MacBook Pro does not have a numlock key (or a numeric keypad for that matter). So that’s why I need this horrible workaround.

By: Rich Marsh

Rich Marsh — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:53:07 +0000

Thanks for the tip on executing code from the Console using the keyboard. A simpler solution is to activate “num lock”. Then simply pressing “enter” (the return key) runs the code.

By: Paul Hagstrom

Paul Hagstrom — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:41:57 +0000

Creative solution — and it is absurd that this should be necessary!

An alternative that doesn’t require quite as much mousing around and contortions at the keyboard is to use KeyRemap4MacBook http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/ which also gives you the hidden numeric keypad back. (It can do all kinds of other fancy keyboard remapping things, but I just use it for the numeric keypad at the moment, and now, turning my right option key back into the Enter key it should always have been.)

By: lingtech : Adding an interleave document option to Acrobat (or, ClearScan bites me again)

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:37:27 +0000

[...] key you need to trigger a script to execute. One workaround that I found by searching the web is to use the keyboard viewer, physically hold down Fn and Ctrl, and use the mouse to click the Enter butt…. You’ve got to be kidding. An easier way is to use KeyRemap4MacBook, which I am using anyway [...]

By: khk

khk — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:45:22 +0000

Do you have a numeric keypad on the iMac? In that case, you don’t need this workaround (but it still should work, it does on my Mac Pro with the normal keyboard).

By: Polo

Polo — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:56:25 +0000

Sorry, but it does not work with iMac – Intel based.

By: P J Duff

P J Duff — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:58:45 +0000

Many thanks for this help – searched all over til I found it.

By: Anabel Jujol

Anabel Jujol — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:29:13 +0000

Thank you for this very helpful post. As an Mac Book user I was trying and trying different combinations without succes.