Acrobat SDK

Hello,I'm working in VBA and would like to select all text in a PDF document and copy it to the Windows clipboard.Is this possible? If so, could someone point me in the right direction regarding Adobe methods to use etc.Thanks

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I need to be able to backspace text through different text fields in a form.  My code creates another field and sets it to focus when you reach the end of the text field, so I'm just trying to do the opposite now. Is that possible in Acrobat JavaScript?  As a bonus, is it also possible to have text flow from multiple text fields in a form if you're deleting from an above text field?  I'm essentially trying to implement how a Word document's text flows in a pdf form with multiple text fields.

Hello,I am unable to set Adobe Acrobat DC Pro so that it displays several documents in tabs and not separate windows. I checked in the preferences but I have no tab option mentioned as it should (if I understood well) have.Could you tell me how to fix this?Many ThanksS.

Hi,I have the following problem. I have to scan a lot of documents that have just one page. I wantto have created a task with the scanning procedure. Now I want Adobe to save the documentwith a specific name such as "Lecture - 1.pdf", the next scan should then have the name"Lecture- 2.pdf" etc.. I want to avoid the hustle, that I have always to type in the filename. I didnot find a solution offered by the tools and tasks.Is Java Script a solution? and if yes, I have no clue of Javascript. Is there a Script already existingto perform such a task?Thanks in advance

My employee, Brandon keeps getting a message saying that ‘acrobat XI adobe could not perform ocr because this page contains renderable text’ when he tries to OCR a document in acrobat XI. When he tries to OCR the same document on another employee’s computer with acrobat 9 it works fine. Brandon looked online and the only solution he could find was to turn the document into a TIF file. How do I fix this so that he doesn't have to turn the document into a TIF file to perform an OCR?

We are having trouble completing OCR on documents we receive from the district attorney in discovery.  I am an attorney.  I have Adobe Acrobat 10 Pro.  I went to Adobe's article, Fix the OCR error Could Not Perform Recognition in Acrobat.  The solutions suggested there may be unworkable.  Solution 1 is to get a copy of the PDF in non-renderable text.  I have a call into the district attorney to see if that is possible.  I am very skeptical that the DA will want to change its procedures.    Solution 2 is to convert the PDF into a TIFF and then back again.  While that works, it is not practical for the 8,000 pages of discovery we receive in a case.  The problem is that the conversion from PDF to TIFF creates a separate document for each page.  Those have to be recombined.  That would take weeks of work, which is not practical.  I just want to OCR renderable text and end up with a document that I can search thoroug

Hi There,At work, we get documents that are scanned from banks and they come in black and white previously.  We would be able to take those and use the "Enhance Scans" feature to either recognize text or we are able to convert to pdf's.   We transcribe a lot of the data and being able to convert it to pdf or enhance the pages and grab the text and use it.  We switched banks and now, we get documents with what appears to be newer technology.  They are all in color and adobe picks them up as a jpeg or picture and Adobe can't recognize them as render-able documents.  This greatly increases our workload because we can do any OCR in these documents.   Is there a way to get these in a position to utilize "Enhance Scans" or make them convertible to excel?

We have a collection of PDFs that have been created from scanned, handwritten, notebooks. There is a text layer within the PDF. However, because the notebooks were handwritten, the text layer/OCR is very poor quality.We'd like to edit this text layer. However, I can't figure out how. When I use the "text recognition - find first suspect" option, I get the message "this page contains renderable text". When I click the "layers" button, nothing shows up.How do I get to the renderable text and edit it?

I have created a form in InDesign, but I am tidying it up using Acrobat DC.On a page with 24 rows, each with 4 form fields, I have been using the "Order Tabs Manually" drag-and-drop function to ensure the tab order is correct.The fields show in the correct order in the FIELDS panel.About half of the fields are working in the correct order, but for some reason the tab order on the PDF does not match the tab order in the FIELDS panel.I have tried various combinations of shift-clicking and ctrl-clicking to select groups of fields; I have tried moving individual fields one at a time, but I still can't get the tab order on the page to match the tab order in the FIELDS panel for ALL fields...only about 50% seem to work in the correct order.Some of them work:Some of 'em don't (same PDF):Any ideas?Thank you,S.

I am new to acrobat dc.  I have several check boxes all with different names that I want to trigger the cursor to move back to a text field and change it to "required"for instance if Check box "Corporation"  or "Partnership" or "L.L.C"is checked, the fields NameRow1,TitleRow1,PhoneRow1,EMailRow1 all become "required" and the form cannot be completed without at least row one being filled out.Please help me.I am new to acrobat, and to javascript

I'm working on an eLearning course, and I'm having the learner answer questions throughout. They enter their answers into text entry fields, and the contents of those fields are then saved as variables in the course files. I'd like to pull the contents from the published course files into an existing PDF with pre-built form fields. I know there's a JavaScript solution to this, but I'm still relatively new to JS and can't quite figure it out on my own. Does anyone know how to make this work?FYI, there are 8 text entry fields/variables in the course that I need to pull into the PDF. They are named as follows: Find, Organize, Clarify, Understand, Select, PlanDo, Check, and Act.Thanks so much in advance for any help you can provide!

I scan easily 10k plus pages per day. My computer auto updated last night to this new version. Last night I continuously fed 1700 pages into a single pdf and saved it with no issues. Today I get to page 249 and the whole program locks up. Before the pages processed while scanning. meaning I could see them while scanning. Now the pages act like a buffer and wait till the scanner stops before processing the pages. I don't like this new way of scanning. Really really slowing my workflow down. Any help out there? I couldn't find a setting to get it back.

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Would like to be able to make a selection in a combo box on a form, and have that selection automatically populate another field such as a text box or a list box

So, here's what I need to doWhen a user opens a PDF document, I need to have my add-on check if there is a side-car file in the same location as the document (this indicates it comes from a document management system we are integrating with). If the side-car file is not there, my plugin will do nothing.I need to read the side-car file (XML or JSON) and determine various properties (meta data about the PDF document from the document system).The user changes the document and wants to save it back (the document is either a form with data he can fill in, or open in DC and is changed). I want to intercept the save command, ask the user if he wants to save it back to the document management system, if he clicks OK, have the document saved, and then (using my own code) ship the document back to my document management system.Close the document.Is this possible to do in a Javascript add-on? I'd rather not do it in C++.

Hi all,i previously designed a pdf in livecycle designer as part of acrobat 9. Now the company has upgraded to 11 and I've had to redo the form I previously had a radio button that would take all the values from all the fields and populate them in an empty text box that would then be copied and pasted as a summary. However I can't get the code working now and am after any help you may be able to offer. The code was F.P1.Button3::click - (JavaScript, client)DAHRTS.rawValue = "Callsign: " + Callsign.rawValue + "\nType: " + Type.rawValue  + "\nDeparture Aerodrome: " + Departure.rawValue   + "\nDestination Aerodrome: " + Dest.rawValue    + "\nEntry Position: " + Entry_Posn.rawValue     + "\n Time: " + Entry_Time.rawValue      + "\n Level: " + Entry_Level.rawValue       + "\n Track: " + Entry_Track.rawValue        + "\nExit Position: " + Exit_Posn.rawVa

Dear Adobe,I want to add annotations based on the existing annotation on the page, and I want to inherit the appearance of that annotation to add the new one. Here is my code for doing this. I try to use the function PDAnnotFromCosObj to get the CosObj of the existing annotation "annot", but I tried and nothing happened, could you please tell me is it a good way to copy the existing annotation's property to creating a new annotation? Do I need to use PDPageCreateAnnot to create a new one? My existing annotation "annot" is valid and created by using cosobj dict to set the appearance by another program.CosObj cosAnnot = PDAnnotGetCosObj(annot);CosDoc cosDoc = CosObjGetDoc(cosAnnot);PDAnnot Newannot = PDAnnotFromCosObj(cosAnnot);ASText titleText = ASTextNew();sprintf(setbuf, "Fang");ASTextSetPDText(titleText, setbuf);PDTextAnnotSetContentsASText(Newannot, titleText);PDPageAddAnnot(page, -2, Newannot);Best Regards/Bien CordialementAlex Fang

We use the DDE API to control print jobs in Acrobat and Reader.  This morning, all machines that updated to Reader DC 2017.009.20044 fail to establish the DDE connection.  The call works fine on all versions prior to 2017.009.20044.We have disabled both "Enable Protected Mode at Startup" and "Enable Enhanced Security".We are using topic = "Control"We have attempted to establish the connection with the following service names:AcroViewAcroviewR10AcroviewR11AcroviewR12AcroviewR13AcroviewR14AcroviewR15In each case, we get DMLERR_NO_CONV_ESTABLISHED (0x400a) from the call to DdeConnect()Our app is written in C, but we've also confirmed failure with VBA code:Public Sub test()    Dim hdde As Long    hdde = DDEInitiate("AcroViewR10", "Control")    Debug.Print hdde    DDETerminate hddeEnd SubWhile I'm at it, we'd prefer to not use DDE for this at all, but we have been unable to find a COM API call that allows us to initiate a

Dear people,I saw an little javascript online to create an barcode with an font in an HTML file.I thought I can do this with an acrobat form and the ean13 fonts only I'm very new to acrobat and Javascript.This is what I have as validation script.var gug = ["LLLLLL","LLGLGG","LLGGLG","LLGGGL","LGLLGG","LGGLLG","LGGGLL","LGLGLG","LGLGGL","LGGLGL"]function updatebarcode(){var txt = this.getField("Text1").value// Left Blockvar first = txt[0]var enc = "_"+first+"*"var max = ((txt.length<7)? txt.length:7)for(var i = 1;i< max;i++){enc+=gug[first][i-1]+txt}enc+="**"// Right Blockvar max = ((txt.length<12)? txt.length:12)for(var i = 7;i<  max;i++){enc+="R"+txt}pr = 0//Checksumfor(var i= Math.min(txt.length,12);i>=1;i--){pr+=parseInt(txt[i-1])*(i%2==1?1:3)}pr=(10-(pr%10))%10enc+="R"+prenc+="*"this.getField("Text1").value=enc}An barcode like this:8711731130608Should become this:_8*L7G1L1G7G3L1**R1R3R0R6R0R8*Is this possible?

Hi all;First off, I have my plug in working (go me!). It doesn't do much, but it's running. In C#.Question. I have some data I need to store in the PDF. This data is for the use of my plug-in only. It's ASCII (uuencoded). WHat/where is the best place to store it?thanks - dave

I am trying to create a function that opens PDFs using an array with the filenames :         var listDocs = ["KOOS.pdf", "OKS.pdf"]        var arrayLength = listDocs.length;        for (var i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++) {              var otherDoc = app.openDoc(listDocs, this);              otherDoc.getField("Serial").value=otherDoc.getField("Serial").value+1;              var pp = otherDoc.getPrintParams();              otherDoc.print(pp);              }I am getting the errorNotAllowedError: Security settings prevent access to this property or methodIt wor

I am trying to automate a repetitive task, but I'm not sure it can be done in Adobe.  I routinely insert technical drawings and specs into a PDF template.  These different documents are always inserted into the same categories (Clarifications, Drawings, Product Specs, etc).  I was wondering if there were a way to write a script to automate these tasks.E.g.  The script would execute by determining which files are which and would then insert them in the proper category.  A subsequent action would be to re-number pages and update the table of contents. Am I asking too much of the software?

Hi AllI created an insert file button in Acrobat DC. I saved the file as a1     Save as other     2     Reader Extended PDF          3     Enable Commenting and MeasuringWhen I opened the file in Reader DC, the Button does not work,I also tried saving it as Enable More tools, with the same results. Any suggestion as to how I can get the buttons created in Acrobat DC to function in Reader DC?When I used previous versions of Acrobat and Reader they worked just fine. Do I need to add something to the JavaScript folder in Reader? If so is there a script that I can use? This has been driving me crazy and I could sure use some adviceKind RegardsScott

Hi. I have a PDF with a script that opens another file, changes that file's serial number and prints the file. How do I save the file so the new serial number is saved? Thanks very much