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I want you to know that it is quite hard for me to write his entry and not riddle it with profanity. Over the course of several months a hobby project of mine, something as geeky as a character sheet for the roleplaying system Silhouette, had me spending quite a bit of time with Adobe Acrobat’s built-in scripting engine, and I feel compelled to make sure you don’t repeat my mistake.

PDF’s are a staple of the digital pen and paper world, and yeah, the idea of a PDF character sheet makes a lot of sense over other more flexible solutions, such as an HTML file; most importantly because of the layout of course. To a larger degree however, I chose to experiment with Acrobats scripting because it seemed like a fun thing to do.

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