adobe-acrobat

Open file in Adobe Acrobat then save back to website with Acrobat save button

I'm sure this isn't possible but figured I'd check -- Using Adobe, is there a way to open a PDF from a webpage. The PDF would then be viewed and marked up if necessary. Then, the user would click the built-in Adobe 'SAVE' button and the pdf would be sent back to the server. I'm sure it's a long shot that this is built into adobe, but ...

Is there any way to make the AxAcroPDF Library work in 64 bit environment?

We have created an application which we want to run in a 64 bit environment. The issue we have is one of our forms uses a pdfviewer. The rest of the application works fine in a 64 bit environment. However, the only way the form with the pdf viewer (AxAcroPDFLib.AxAcroPDF) will work is if we make the whole application a 32 bit applicati...

retrieving data from pdf form without using acrobat.com

I am about to purchase one of the Adobe products and although I have been reading and watching videos on the subject for a few hours already, I couldn't figure out if I could retrive data: -either using Acrobat's own form tools/LiveCycle into my own server (not acrobat.com - and hopefully not some corporate Acrobat server application) ...

Displaying PDF in Browser - Showing Thumbnails ("Pages") by Default

I'm currently using ITextSharp to write a PDF to a web browser, but I cannot figure out how to, by default, show the thumbnails on the left side. If I click the "Pages" button they appear correctly, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do it by default. I thought this might be a setting within adobe's browser PDF viewer, but I can't f...

print pdf file in acrobat reader using javascript and close it

Hi, we are displaying a reporting services report as a pdf document in acrobat reader. when the user clicks on the print in the acrobat reader, I will like to print the report and close the report. The user should be able to print the report only once. ...

Extract text and image from a pdf in a selected area or coordinates

Hi All, I have a specific requirement of extracting text and images from a specific area in a pdf file.The area might be a selected or highlighted or from a given set of coordinates. When i went through, all the approaches are to extract images and text entirely from the PDF on not in a specified location. I tried with iTextSharp,Sync...

How to diagnose cause, fix, or work around Adobe ActiveX / COM related error 0x80004005 progmatically?

I've built a C# .NET app that uses the Adobe ActiveX control to display a PDF. It relies on a couple DLLs that get shipped with the application. These DLLs interact with the locally installed Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on the machine. This app is being used by some customer already and works great for nearly all us...

VB6 app printing Crystal Report to Adobe Distiller PDF - how to set PDF filename?

I've got a legacy piece-o'-s- app that I'm maintaining. It's a VB6 app that calls a Crystal Report (Crystal 8 it looks like) and then prints programmatically to the default printer, which is set up as Acrobat Distiller (v5.0). When it prints to PDF, it's automatically placing the resulting PDF in a folder (c:\pdf) and naming it as the ...

Adobe Acrobat SDK, How to/Licensing? .Net

We are having problems removing the toolbar/sidebar from the Adobe Viewer control for .NET.. Of course it is possible with if you watch for Windows Procs. and what not, but we aren't extremely interested in this, so we started looking into 3rd party and the Adobe SDK. The Adobe Acrobat SDK seems extremely complicated to me to understand...

creating an insert image button in an acrobat 9 form

Hi, I am creating a pdf form in acrobat 9 pro, I would like to add a button so the user can insert an image from their machine. I have been give a pdf where this is possible. How can I create an insert image field in my form? Is this possibly a livecycle or windows feature? I am on osx ...

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? ...

Dynamically generated PDF files working in most readers except Adobe Reader

I'm trying to dynamically generate PDFs from user input, where I basically print the user input and overlay it on an existing PDF that I did not create. It works, with one major exception. Adobe Reader doesn't read it properly, on Windows or on Linux. QuickOffice on my phone doesn't read it either. So I thought I'd trace the path of me ...

Adobe LiveCycle Designer - Databinding and distribution - merging of personalised data

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me. I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 and LiveCycle designer and what I'm trying to do is create a dynamic form that I can send to a number of recipients with the recipients personal data (name, address etc.), pre-populated on the form. Is this possible (with only Adobe Acrobat Pro and LiveCycle desi...

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 test documents, it works as expected (meaning, no changes to the page occurs). However, o...

internet-explorer BHO PDF

I developed an IE8 toolbar in C#. The toolbar has a button which when clicked adds some user defined content to the page. I am using a BHO to add the required HTML, CSS & JS to the page. Everything is fine when normal HTML pages are loaded. But, my button isn't working when the loaded page is a pdf document. I found out that the adobe pl...

invisible signature in pdf with itextsharp

hi, I use itextsharp to sign a pdf document. this works just fine with my certificate. I can see the signature if I open the pdf. now I install the certificate (double click in windows xp). windows does some stuff and adds it somehow to the system. now I sign a pdf again and I can't see the signature any more! It looks like the docume...

How to send IP address using PDF Forms and Adobe Acrobat?

Hi everyone, I have a PDF form and I would like to send the IP address of the person that hits the submit button with the other values of the form. I am using Adobe Acrobat. Could anyone help me with this? Thanks a lot!!! ...

Compare PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat via SDK

We are planning on implementing a solution for comparing different revisions of a PDF document in our .Net Windows Forms application. In Adobe Acrobat there is a nice feature for comparing two documents, but I have not been able to find any information about whether it is possible to create a plug-in (or something else) to this feature f...

How to call an external program in ASP.NET such that each visitor gets isolated?

Dear all, Actually I don't know whether my question is related to this thread. I want to create a web application using ASP.NET MVC 2. For simplicity, let my scenario be as follows: A visitor is allowed to submit a text file and get a pdf output from the server. There is an Adobe-Acrobat-like application, that can convert text to pd...

Why doesnt Acrobat Distiller embed all fonts fully?

When I use Acrobat Distiller (v.9.1.3), it seems that I cannot embed all fonts -- at least not in the way I want to (no subsetting). One example is Wingdings (TrueType). I activated the tickboxes and settings to "Always embed" and "No subsetting". If I check in a text editor the *.joboptions file that I saved as my custom Distiller prof...