AcroButtons is a one of a kind solution for quickly and easily adding custom, scriptable, and portable buttons to the Adobe® Acrobat® toolbar.

Scriptable Toolbar buttons are a powerful user interface feature that give you and your users three very big advantages. 

1. A Toolbar Button is like a  Lightweight plug-in:  
   These buttons can be used for everything from making menu items easily accessible to performing complex document manipulations (the traditional domain of plug-ins). Improve efficiency by automating tasks and making advanced Acrobat functionality available to employees and customers without making them follow a list of complex instructions or become experts.

2. A Toolbar Button is Portable: 
   Toolbar buttons created with AcroButtons are built entirely with Acrobat JavaScript.  Once built, they are independent of the AcroButtons tool.  They can be used in every Acrobat product (6.0 or greater) that executes JavaScript  This means Acrobat Professional, Standard, and Reader on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms.  Build it once, use it everywhere, give it out to anyone.

3. A Toolbar Button can be Embedded into a PDF Document!!
   The button travels with the PDF and is displayed on the toolbar only when the document is open.  It's the only Acrobat user interface element for a document that is always visible and accessible to the user, no matter how the document is zoomed or scrolled.  Place "Submit" and "Help" buttons and  your company logo with a link to your web site on the toolbar where they are always visible.  Perfect for specialized document tools like navigation and search.

What? My PDF Document can put a button on the Acrobat Toolbar? Yes It Can! - Easily embed Toolbar Buttons in PDF documents- embedding toolbar buttons into PDF documents adds a new dimension to the document's user interface. They become available when the document is opened and disappear when it is closed. This lets you do things like always have a visible Submit button on the toolbar for long forms, a Buy Button on brochures, etc. Users can click the button from anywhere in an open document, saving you from creating buttons for every page. Intrigued?  Then keep reading to check out the major features of AcroButtons that make creating your own Acrobat toolbar buttons a quick and easy task!

• Choose Your Button Icon - from other PDF documents, image files (PDF, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG...), or from over 250 ready to go images provided with AcroButtons, featuring designs from The Iconfactory. Make button images make sense to you, others in your organization, and readers of your PDF documents. Use your company logo, your face, your imagination.
• AcroButton's Quick Select Feature - makes creating button images easy. It will automatically create button sized images from anything you select from a PDF document. No editing necessary.
• Choose Your Button's Action - Create your own from scratch or select from a list of over 30 predefined JavaScript Actions provided with the program, all common and very useful actions. A few of the JavaScrippets included are Add File Name to Doc, Add Modified Date to Doc, Flatten Form, Delete All Fields, GoTo Web page, Mail Form Data, Mail PDF File, New Doc, New Page, Submit Form Data, and many more. Make use of powerful JavaScript capabilities in Acrobat without having to be a JavaScript expert.
• Batch Processing:  AcroButtons adds two commands to Acrobat's batch processing command list so you can manage toolbar buttons in large numbers of PDFs.  One of these commands is specifically for adding and removing toolbar buttons to/from documents.  The other command is for adding and removing entire JavaScript files to/from PDFs, giving you a powerful tool for general JavaScript management in PDFs, including control of the document actions (willSave, willPrint, willClose, etc.).
• AcroButtons Toolbar Buttons are Pure Acrobat JavaScript - making them very portable. Toolbar buttons created with AcroButtons are platform independent (Windows or Mac), work with Reader 6 or 7, and can be shared with everyone in your organization, your customers, correspondence lists, etc.
• Button Management:  AcroButtons give you a full range of options for creating, editing, deleting and embedding buttons. Toolbar Buttons can easily be moved from folder level to document, or from document to document.  All buttons can be edited in place, wherever they are, and then put on the toolbar without having to restart Acrobat. As a document creator many odd situations will occur for you that an end user will rarely see, such as multiple buttons with the same name.  AcroButtons provides management features to help you to handle these situations cleanly.
• Advanced Mode: AcroButtons creates defaults and provides easy select options for the many features of a toolbar button. Advanced mode exposes all these features for low level custom manipulation.
• JavaScript Compatibility: Big changes were made between Acrobat 6.0 and 7.0 in the JavaScript security model and the rules for creating toolbar buttons.  AcroButtons handles these differences and creates toolbar buttons that work seamlessly in either version.
• AcroButtons' Image Prep Tool - helps you create the best button from images you select with cropping, masking, scaling, and automatic sizing features.
• Easy JavaScript Debugging - JavaScript programmers will appreciate being able to edit and test their Folder Level scripts within AcroButtons without having to restart Acrobat after every edit. The AcroButtons Properties Panel is a floating window so you can work with the button and the JavaScript debugger simultaneously. 

Take a Quick tour of AcroButtons with our Quick Start Tutorials, covering the basic features and steps to create your own custom Acrobat toolbar buttons.