What's the best way to detect that Adobe Acrobat Reader is installed from a web browser? I'm assuming it would have to be done on the client-side (I don't think Adobe adds any user-agent strings). Preferably in JavaScript and in Internet Explorer, although it would be nice if it could also be done in FireFox, Safari, etc... ...
How to embed Adobe Acrobat Professional or Standard (NOT Reader) in my Application? Does it has an ActiveX? ...
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 PDF file itself so that we ensure the best user experience? Thank you! ...
Dear Experts, I need to merge multiple files (of different format like doc, xls, pdf.. ) into one pdf. With the GUI I can perform the task but I need to know the command line arguments for it.. Any help in this regards will be highly appriciated. Pls reply at my email : [email protected] Thanks a lot. Regards, Bhupesh ...
I have this time sheet that has four "In" and four "Out" columns,and calculates hours worked in a two week pay period. There is a column on the right that calculates the hours worked for the day (see script below). I need it to round to the nearest quarter hour i.e., If an employee arrives or leaves between: ":00" to ":07" minutes afte...
Acrobat Reader successfully renders sample1.pdf inside IE given the following HTML: <embed style="width: 8.5in; height: 11in;" id="pdfViewer" src="sample1.pdf" type="application/pdf"> What javascript allows me to use that same PDF reader instance to display sample2.pdf? EDIT: I don't care what HTML is involved, I don't think -- the g...
There are lots of suggestions on SO and elsewhere for using non-Adobe products to programmatically combine PDF files. Is there no way to (fairly easily) use my paid copy of Adobe Acrobat Standard (not Reader) to programmatically combine two or more PDF files into a new PDF file (I know it can be done manually with combine -> multiple ...
Hi I am embedding pdf file to my asp.net page like this <object data="..." type="application/pdf" width="300" height="200"> </object> The problem is that I have created my own toolbar for pdf, and want to zoom in, out document from my toolbar image buttons. I know that I can embed JavaScript to pdf document, when creating document fro...
This is most likely not an easy one but here is the situation: I have written a C# command line application which: creates a PDF using ITextSharp writes it to disk uses Acrord32.exe (this is Acrobat Reader) via System.Diagnostics.Process in order to silently print the generated PDF If I build my solution and double click the pdfGen....
A client is asking how to create an interactive PDF form with functionality that allows the values entered into the form to be processed on the server. From what I've read, the best way to do this is to program the submission by embedding javascript into the PDF file via Acrobat, then writing code on the server side to handle the submi...
Hey there, I created a link in a pdf document to a local html file ressource. When you press the link, the following messagebox is shown: For none German speakers... Securitywarning ... Document is trying to open ressource... are u sure that you wanna do that... Options are "Ok" or "Block" But it is independent if click "block" or ...
I made up an editable PDF for students to request transcripts. Now, I want to constrain the input. For example, I want only numbers for their ID number, and I want only letters (no special characters) in the name fields, etc. In addition, there's an input called "Year Last Attended" where they enter the last academic year the user attend...
I have a writeable PDF form made in Acrobat Professional. I want to validate that a numerical entry is in a certain range [a,b]. If it is not, I want an alert to pop up with the message, "Please contact Larry at XXX-XXX-XXXX to get your form processed." Can someone write up a quick snippet of code that does this for a PDF? I know how to ...
Hi! As the title says.. Is it possible to control Adobe Professional 9 through the win32ole API, preferably by using Ruby scripts. I want to be able to open a PDF document and enable the extended commenting features allowing for commenting the file when opened in Adobe Reader, but I need to do it programmatically. ~ ToRd ...
At first, caching didn't work in all browsers. Then I made it work in all browsers but IE (IE8) by adding .pdf extension to the url. Servlet stopped being called after that. I display pdf file inline on the webpage via EMBED tag that loads the following url: http://localhost:7001/app/viewFile.pdf Which is generated by java servlet wi...
is there any way to get the adobe reader control in our visual studio.net without installing the adobe reader in our system! ...
Okay, here's the deal... I have a Windows (XP) program in .NET 2.0 (C#) which allows users to rename a given .pdf file. (The filename is "structurally descriptive", as it lays out simple info about what's in the file itself.) On the program's only form, there is a LinkLabel object which allows the user to open the .pdf itself, so that...
Thanks in advance. I am currently creating a PDF document which has fields on it which I'd like to post into an aspx page. Now this bit I have working successfully using a button with the added behaviour 'Submit Form'. I want to tweak this so before the form is submitted a confirmation message pops up, clicking no will abort the for s...
Hi - Is there a library/tool which would list all colours used in a PDF document ? I'm sure Acrobat itself would do this but I would like an alternative (ideally something that could be scripted). So the idea is if you have a very simple PDF document with four colours in it the output might say : RGB(100,0,0) RGB(105,0,0) CMYK(0,0,0,...
The whole question is pretty much in the title. ...