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Adobe Reader is a free application for viewing, printing and filling PDF documents.

Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader) is the free version of of the Adobe Acrobat family by Adobe Systems to view, print and fill files in Portable Document Format (PDF)

For more information see the "Adobe Acrobat" article on Wikipedia.

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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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PDF files do not open in Internet Explorer with Adobe Reader 10.0 - users get an empty gray screen. How can I fix this for my users?

There is a known issue with opening a PDF in Internet Explorer (v 6, 7, 8, 9) with Adobe Reader X (version 10.0.*). The browser window loads with an empty gray screen (and doesn't even have a Reader toolbar). It works perfectly fine with Firefox,…
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Possible to make Adobe Reader not hold a file lock on Windows?

On Windows, when a PDF is opened in Adobe Reader, it appears to hold a lock on the file. This behavior means that if I want to re-run pdflatex to regenerate the file, I need to close it in Reader, run pdflatex, jump back to Reader, and reopen the…
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iTextSharp-generated PDFs now cause Save dialog in Adobe Reader X

I have been using iTextSharp to generate PDF documents for over a year. Unfortunately, with the release of Adobe Reader X, my PDFs now cause a "Do you want to Save?" dialog to appear when closing the PDF document. This does not happen with PDFs…
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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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How can I troubleshoot opening a PDF through Firefox on Android?

I have a link to a pdf file on my website. The pdf opens without any issues in the built-in pdf viewer on Firefox or iOS. I get an error when I try to open the pdf by clicking the link in Firefox on Android. After clicking the link the Adobe Reader…
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Check Adobe Reader is installed (C#)?

How can I check whether Adobe reader or acrobat is installed in the system? also how to get the version? ( In C# code )
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Is it possible to have a PDF file open at a predefined magnification in Adobe Reader?

We have a downloadable PDF file which looks great at 72% magnification in Adobe Reader and not so good at 101%. When downloaded and opened in the reader, its default magnification is 101%. Is there a way to define the default magnification in the…
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Form field values set with PDFBOX not visible in Adobe Reader

I am having an issue with trying to set some from fields using Apache PDFBOX(1.8.5). I have a few different Static PDFs that I am using for testing. Using the following code, I can set the values of form fields, and save the resulting PDF. I can…
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Process.Start(/* path to pdf */) doesn't work with Adobe Reader on Windows 8

I'm able to create PDFs in my C#/WPF application and run them with the following: Process.Start(_pathToPDFFile); This works with Adobe Acrobat, but not with Adobe Reader. When Adobe Reader is installed, Process.Start() does nothing unless the…
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How to get Adobe Reader full path(including executable file name)?

it's possible? I need to get the full path of Adobe Reader including the executable name. I'm looking for on windows registries, the closer that I did was found the full path without executable name. Thanks in advance. my code: var adobe =…
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closing an instance of acrobat reader from command line

I am using the following cmd to print the pdf: acroRD32.exe /t "file1.pdf" "printerName" Everything works fine but one window pops up. Can anybody help me to disable it. I tried with various options included in this question but cannot…
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Annotating Adobe Reader PDFs with math symbols

Many of the math textbooks and other literature I read is in PDF format, so I frequently find myself annotating these with the Adobe Reader comments tool. I did find a helpful guide here, but sometimes I'd like the option of inserting math symbols,…
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javascript detect adobe reader plugin for browser

If the pdf viewer plugin is not installed how to detect it and give a alert message to install pdf viewer
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View pdf in browser but save with wrong file name

I have a form where when a user presses the download button it a get_file.php script returns the specified php file. In ffx when I disable the adobe plugin, a download box appears with the correct file name. In IE8 I cant disable the adobe plugin…
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