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Adobe Acrobat is a family of applications developed by Adobe in order to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

All members of the family, except Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader), are proprietary commercial software, while the latter is available as freeware and can be downloaded from Adobe's web site. Adobe Reader enables users to view and print PDF files but has negligible PDF creation capabilities.

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Adobe Reader Command Line Reference

Is there any official command line (switches) reference for the different versions of Adobe (formerly Acrobat) Reader? I didn't find anything on Adobe Developer Connection. Especially I want to: Start Reader and open a file Open a file at a…
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Documentation for using JavaScript code inside a PDF file

Where can I find documentation on running JavaScript code inside a PDF? I've never added a JavaScript action inside a PDF document. However, I've done quite a bit of web development using JavaScript. I have a few questions to whoever has any…
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Display Adobe pdf inside a div

I have a pdf file that the user has to see and click on the "I agree" button. How do you display a pdf inside a div?
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"name" web pdf for better default save filename in Acrobat?

My app generates PDFs for user consumption. The "Content-Disposition" http header is set as mentioned here. This is set to "inline; filename=foo.pdf", which should be enough for Acrobat to give "foo.pdf" as the filename when saving the…
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Free tool for watching coordinates in PDF

Is there any tool in some PDF Viewer/Editor like Acrobat, Evince, etc. where I can navigate and watch coordinates(i.e. (x,y)) of any selected point in PDF-document?
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PDFTK Rotating Pages Problem

I'm trying to use PDFTK to rotate pages in my PDF document. Executing something like the following should result in no changes to the page rotation: pdftk in.pdf cat 1N output out.pdf (This is rotating page 1 "north" or "0 degrees.") In some PDF…
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How to know if a PDF contains only images or has been OCR scanned for searching?

I have a bunch of PDF files that came from scanned documents. The files contain a mix of images and text. Some were scanned as images with no OCR, so each PDF page is one large image, even where the whole page is entirely text. Others were…
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Silent print an embedded PDF

I have a web page with embedded PDF on it. My code looks like this: I have this javascript code for print my…
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Programmatically Extract PDF Tables

I have a bunch of PDF docs with tabular data in them which I need to extract into a more readable format to store in a spreadsheet, database or whatever. Is there anything out in the world (preferably free) that is able to get tabular data out of…
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Adobe Acrobat Reader Tabs Saving And Autoloading

I've created Javascript for Acrobat Reader which allows you to save the currently open tabs. It adds the menu items: "Save tabs", "Load tabs", and "Toggle auto load". It saves tabs and page numbers, and restores them as well. It's especially…
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Is it possible to uncompress PDF by using Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Distiller?

Most PDF files found on the Web have compressed and unreadable data streams. Is it possible to uncompress the internal content of a PDF file using Acrobat or Acrobat Distiller, allowing us to read the source code by a text editor? P.S. This question…
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How can I hide the Adobe Reader toolbar when displaying a PDF in the .NET WebBrowser control?

I am trying to load a PDF document inside a .NET web browser control. In versions of Adobe Reader prior to v10 (aka "X"), the PDF loaded without the toolbar displayed—you would just see the PDF document. In the newly-released Reader v10, there is a…
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Adobe Acrobat Pro make all pages the same dimension

Does anyone know how to change the dimensions of each page on an Acrobat document. Also how can I see the dimensions of each page seperately?? For example I have a 3 pages document. The first 2 pages are of the same dimensions 8.2 x 11.6 inches.…
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Printing a PDF Silently with Adobe Acrobat

I'm having 2 issues when trying to print a pdf silently in C# using adobe acrobat. I'm printing the pdfs using Process.Start(). The first issue is that I cannot launch Adobe Acrobat without specifying the full path to the executable. I assume it…
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TypeError: Date is not a constructor

So, I've been making forms for my company for some time now with pretty easy Javascript that has worked for me in the past. However all of a sudden it's kicking out the error: TypeError: Date is not a constructor The Code: var Date =…
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