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The Software Developer Kit for Adobe Acrobat

With the Acrobat SDK you can write scripts in to extend the functionality of , create plug-ins, and use the interapplication communication (IAC) to have an independent program control Acrobat's functionality.

For more information, go to http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/overview.html.

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Create Add-in for Acrobat Reader - PDF

Can i create an Add-in for Acrobat Reader? (something like Office Add-ins in visual studio) for example, i open a pdf file with Acrobat Reader, i want to add my custom button in the Reader in order to perform a specific action. Is it doable? Is it…
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Command-line to execute Acrobat Action Wizard action from VBA

I've built an action in Action Wizard in Adobe Acrobat Pro 11 and named it say "myAcrobatAction". I want to use it automatically in Outlook using VBA code. Is there a way to call the user defined Acrobat action through the command-line or other way…
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How to convert PDF to Word using Acrobat SDK?

My .Net application needs to convert a PDF document to Word format programmatically. I evaluated several products and found Acrobat X Pro, which gives a save as option where we can save the document in Word/Excel format. I tried to use Acrobat SDK…
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Adobe Acrobat API in Python

System: Python 3.6 Windows 10 Goal: Use the Adobe Acrobat API to use the "Save As" feature to save a pdf to jpegs. Note: For my purposes I cannot use Wand or other packages. Resources: Adobe_API_Documentation Implementation_Example…
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How can I create a plugin that adds a stamp annotation with a custom icon using Adobe Acrobat SDK (C++)?

I'm currently making a plugin for Adobe Acrobat via the Acrobat SDK C++ tool. This plugin needs to be a Stamp annotation that stamps a custom icon (either .ico, .jpg, or .png file) rather than the default Draft or Approved stamps. I've followed the…
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Is there a way to read table data (parse) from pdf file using Adobe reader Type library

I am working on C#.net project. I have a pdf file which contains some table structure data. I have google a lot how even not able to get the answer about how to read the table data from pdf file in C# code. I tried iTextSharp, PdfBOX, pdfSharp etc.…
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C# to read XFA form data

I am trying to programmatically read the field values from a Livecycle created form. I tried opening the document using the Acrobat COM component and it seemed to work and with some reflection I managed to get the actual field names, but the value…
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Acrobat SDK: How to get events and write event handlers in c#

I am trying out to get events from a pdf doc and handle it in my c# code with the samples that come with Acrobat-SDK. I am yet to understand how I can do it. I am yet to discover the class that provides me the events. All the classes currently…
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How to properly exit CAcroApp?

I referenced Acrobat.dll in a simple C# Console program, and then wrote a couple of lines of codes to run Acrobat. CAcroApp mApp = new AcroAppClass(); Console.WriteLine("Acrobat is running"); bool bClose = mApp.CloseAllDocs(); bool bExit =…
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JavaScript API for Adobe Acrobat - how to create a relative link to a non-PDF document with JavaScript?

My company wants to set up some PDF documents to track projects. We want to create links inside the PDF that, when clicked, open a given document (.doc, .xls etc) using a relative path. There is the app.openDoc JavaScript method, however that only…
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Best free alternative to Acrobat SDK in order to manipulate PDF document in c# .net

I need to add bookmarks to pdf documet without using Acrobat SDK (that needs the full Acrobat professional installed). I'm using iTextSharp but is was made for Java and the porting to .net it is not complete. Do you know an free alternative or…
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doc.pageWindowRect and doc.media are undefined in Adobe Acrobat Javascript

I'm using the Javascript API built-in to the Adobe Acrobat products, and trying to access the doc.pageWindowRect attribute. I originally found that doc.pageWindowRect was undefined whenever I tried to access it, and through various posts on the…
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use Acrobat to reduce file size with Python or from command line

I would like to reduce the size of some PDF files. There are many ways to do so, but most of them don't work for my purposes. For example, pdftk, cpdf, and pdfoptsize all fail to reduce the sizes of my files. Ghostscript can reduce the file size,…
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How to link form fields in acrobat so that they behave as a single field

How can I link together multiple fields in Acrobat, such that the user can continue to write in the next field when the current field is full? Ideally, pasting data into one field would continue to paste into the next field(s) as well if the pasted…
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Connect to Acrobat's IAC (interapplication communication)

I am trying to automate some non-trivial task* with Adobe's Acrobat XI. I think the way to go is using Acrobat's IAC, which seems to be well-documented, eg. here. However, I could not figure out how to access the application object, eg. from within…
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