Acrobat SDK

Hi Community, I am looking for what to choose between javaScript and Plugins development in Adobe Acrobat I have two main requirements:1. use web API and web services.2. use content Stream. I have gone through the Adobe Developer FAQ reference for this(https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/Acrobat_SDK_developer_faq.pdf). [on page number 18] [screenshot is given below] found that my both requirements lie in different development technologies.so how I can achieve this? any lead is appreciatedThanks    

Hello Beginner here,  Working with a fillable form PDF where the users will enter in the time it took to complete a task. For example, it took 2:59 for task one and 2:37 for task two. Where each time is written in HH:MM.The total box is a simple addition but gives the result in total HH:MM. Each task field Format tab is set to Time -> HH:MM. I have been using the Calculate tab and having it sum the select the fields from the form "Pick..."However it simply adds the task times and results as 4.96. Where as I want it to result as 05:36.When the Format tab is set to Time -> HH:MM, nothing is displayed however.  Am I missing something in the Calculate or in the Format steps? Or maybe both? Any help is greatly appreciated! Or maybe there is a section in the forums that I need to read.  Thank you,  Chris5C4D

I am from Japan.AllowPSFileOps (Mac OS Sierra, Acrobat DC) Thank you very much for many reply.But, I misunderstood it.Now, I try it Acrobat X on OS X Sierra (not Acrobat DC).Acrobat X worked on Sierra because I created dummy folders bellow.sudo mkdir -p /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk /System/Library/Java/Support/Deploy.bundle---OK (-F option  unused):sudo /Applications/Adobe\ Acrobat\ X\ Pro/Acrobat\ Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/Distiller /Users/aoki/foo/bar.epsThe created PDF has the permission `root/weel'.Error (-F option used):/Applications/Adobe\ Acrobat\ X\ Pro/Acrobat\ Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/Distiller -F /Users/aoki/foo/bar.epsError (-F option used):open -a Acrobat\ Distiller.app -F /Users/aoki/foo/bar.epsDistiller says:%%[ Error: undefinedfilename; OffendingCommand: run ]%%`bar.eps' includes in a part:(/Users/aoki/foo/common/HEAD.eps) run---Then, must I invoke Distiller every EPS files?Sincerely,AOKI Yoshihiro 

Hi,I Want to convert non embedded font to embedded font using Acrobat SDK.I am using below code to do that. It was creating new font and it was not updating existing font. PDDoc pdDoc = AVDocGetPDDoc(AVAppGetActiveDoc());CosObj fontObj = PDFontGetCosObj(font);PDEFont pdeFont = PDEFontCreateFromCosObj(&fontObj);PDEFontAttrs attrs;memset(&attrs, 0, sizeof(attrs));PDEFontGetAttrs(pdeFont, &attrs, sizeof(attrs));PDSysEncoding sysEnc = NULL;if (attrs.type == ASAtomFromString("Type0")){sysEnc = PDSysEncodingCreateFromCMapName(attrs.encoding);}else{//Collect the /Differences from the /BaseEncoding if present for a simple font.//std::vector<const char*> differencesEncoding = CollectEncodingDifferencesIfPresent(fontEntry->fontCosObj);//sysEnc = PDSysEncodingCreateFromBaseName(attrs.encoding, differencesEncoding.size() > 0 ? &(*differencesEncoding.begin()) : NULL);}PDSysFont pdSysFont = PDFindSysFontForPDEFont(pdeFont, kPDSysFontMatchNameAndCharSet);// If the fon

Hello Community, We creating a process for reading some pdf files and convert them to some type of xml,we saw that at least regarding tables, Acrobat has good output.Our question is if it possible to use the .net api for exporting pdf to xml as it does in the acrobat pro dc software? Thank for any lead,Naftali B.

Hi Community,I am currently trying to create a Custom utility(tool)  in Adobe Acrobat to send an open PDF to online External Storage (like one drive, box, google drive, etc).I have few questions to ask for guidance/help. 1. How can I do external storage authentication in adobe acrobat to send open pdf files?2. Is it possible to open these external storage web authentication page inside adobe acrobat (dialog panel)?3. Is it possible with javaScript or with the C/C++ plugin Development?  I am aware that in JavaScript API reference "LaunchURL" is there but it opens a web page outside acrobat that is not what I looking for. I also know I can add External Storage Account in adobe acrobat Pro Dc via going to "Home-> Add an Account" where I can get an option to add external accounts like a box, google drive, etc but I am trying for a custom tool. I need guidance on these points to move further. Thanks 

Hi.I have 4 users, which all got Adobe Standard DC 12 installed.But now they need Adobe Pro DC 12, and it's not possible to upgrade them.I tried to uninstall Standard DC 12 completely, and install again with Classic installer - when they open DC and login, it's still the Standard version...I also tried to run the Cleaner tool - same issue.Do I need to manually change the license key on the computer - and how?Or is it user-related, so that the users will need to get the license changed at their profile?

I have a popup menu created in acrobat javascript using the popUpMenuEx method that works flawlessly with exception of one issue I am having with the bMarked property for a menu item that acts as a toggle switch to turn calculations on/off. Although the menu item works without flaw performing its intended function, for whatever reason, I am unable to display a checkmark/tick next to the popup menu item using the bMarked property when this.calculate=true. I am just wondering if this has anything to do with the 'calculate' property. Has anyone ever experienced this behavior or know what may be causing this problem as I have never had an issue in creating similar popup menu items such as one to toggle 'highlight fields' on/off?  Thank you ahead of time.

Hi, I am currently trying to redorder pages based on names found within each page so I can alphabetize my document. I wrote a script that can find the name I am looking for and successfully store the name and that page number in an array of objects. I can see my search and sort function has been successful when I console.println my sorted array. however, using the this.movePage function to move the actual pages based off of my sorted (alphabetized) array has proven tricky since the page numbers are dynamic and moving one reorders the current document. Do you have a better suggestion on how to move the pages successfully?TLDR: I have pages sorted in an array that I want the document order to resemble. How do I successfully use this.movePage to accomplish this? (Or is there another way?) Thanks in advance.

I prepared an acrobat form that contains a drop-down list.When I try to open the form on my smartphone, the drop-down list doesn't function.This file should arrive to many people; how could I activate the drop-down option in the smartphone?

Hello all, I am really new in that field so perhaps this is not a big deal for you but I am struggeling since a while. I am trying to create a PDF using only templates which I let appear or disapear by pressing buttons (there is always only one active template). Using the following code it works perfectly fine in Acrobat DC Pro but when I open the same file in Acrobat Reader it is completely messed up (first page cannot be deleted-second templated appears but the buttons on that second page does not work correctly..). Perhaps someody knows what is wrong here. var nNumRangee=1,bRetour=0,prevA=[];function navigation(e){this.delay=!0;var t=this.dirty;prevA.push(e),isNaN(Number(e))||(this.getTemplate(e).spawn({bRename:!1,nPage:0,bOverlay:!1}),this.numPages>1&&this.deletePages({nStart:1,nEnd:this.numPages-1})),this.delay=!1,this.dirty=t,bRetour=1}I hope you can help.

Hi 🙂I am new to make pdf forms but see it usful for work. I did read an article here about getting export value shown in the dropdown and have used it in one of my forms. this is the code: event.value = event.target.getItemAt(event.target.currentValueIndices, true); My issue is that on my work computer I am not allowed to use java scripts. I cant activate it at all. is it an solution to get this function without using javascript?

HiI am a realtor and use Adobe Pro DC and a program through our mls called Authentisign.I had a  document that was signed through authentisign and when printed on both my office and home computers would black out the signature.When other people printed it, it would print correctly.In doing some research, there was a similar issue on an adobe forum where the person was told to print as image--so I did.  It worked.What would be causing the signatures to be blacked out?  I have printed other documents created from the same program, and have never had an issue.When printing, you can go to advanced and it looks as if a black sheet of paper is put over the document.  When you print as image, there is nothing blocking the document.Anyone have any ideas?  At least I have a work-around, but as I have said I haven't had any issues in the past.Thank you all for your help!

Hi.I have created a tool that does the following using the OLE Automation interface. (1)Divide the pdf file page by page(PDDoc.GetJSObject.extractPages)(2)The divided pdf file's name is from the contents of each page(PDDoc.GetJSObject.getPageNumWords)(3)Get the contents from each divided pdf file(about 250 divided files) and　　check if the file name match(PDDoc.GetJSObject.getPageNumWords). When getting the contents of each file in (3), run-time error '-2147023170(800706be)' occurs,that says automation error, the remote procedure call failed.When the error occured, acrobat application was terminated even though there was no process to terminate the application.The error does not occur in the DC version, but in other versions(XI, 9) What can I do to solve this? Please give me some advice.

Hello everyone .Actually I'm creating a special library using C# language and using (Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Browser Control Type Library 1.0 ) (AxAcroPDF ver:1.0) from COM Components to views my PDF files at my forms.also I have installed the latest Adobe Reader on my PC (Adobe Acrobat Reader DC ver:2020.013.20074), and installed Acrobat PDF iFilter ver:11.0.01 too.every thing is working great, but I rellay want to open (advanced search side window) (Shift+Ctrl+F) next to my form viewer with abbility to using Searching at my Documents folder and another locations.Actually I can using advanced search side while I using Acrobat Reader DC, but I can't throu my Form.I'm Looking for solution, how to open (advanced search side window) with My form Viewer?see the attachment.This is my C# form: can't using Searching at my Documents folder.  This is Acrobat Reader DC : can using Searching at my Documents folder.ver of  Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Browser Control Type Library 1.0 ) (AxAcroPDF ve

Hello community, I would like to do the following: I would like to generate a PDF form, most likely in Acrobat DC or Acrobat DC pro. This form should then be sent to a Java service which fills the form with already existing data from a database. I already had two calls with Adobe Sales and Adobe technical support. They had no known solution but they told me to take a look into this community here. So does anybody know if there is an Adobe software / SDK / cloud which does that in Java? Manipulating PDFs and filling the fields? Or exchanging texts?  Is this doable with the Acrobat SDK? Thank you in advance, have a nice workweek and bestSwissMan

The following code works perfectly in Microsoft excel VBA (Visual Basic For Applications).Though this Early Binding version works , But if I use it in a workbook, I can not open the excel file on a machine that  Acrobat Pro is not installed.  Excel doesn't find the reference to Acrobat Pro, and all the functions stop working. I need to Late Bind the reference. How can I change it to late binding? Dim AcroPDDocNew As New Acrobat.AcroPDDoc Dim AcroPDDocAdd As New Acrobat.AcroPDDoc Dim lRet As Long lPages=0 lRet = AcroPDDocNew.Create() lRet = AcroPDDocAdd.Open("E:\Test1.pdf") lRet = AcroPDDocNew.InsertPages(lPages - 1, AcroPDDocAdd, 0, 1, True) Thank you. 

I'm new to automating stuff in Acrobat. We generate a tenancy agreement and there after need to add some documents to create the complete document before it can be sent for signatures. How can we script / program to automatically insert the documents into the main file. 

I am using VBA to extract data from a PDF into my access database.  For part of this I need to check if a drop down has been populated before continuing with the rest of the script.   This line works fine in my database that has an access backend:     If jso.getField("Room10").Value <> " " Then     But when I test in my database that has an SQL backend I get a data mismatch error.  I am unsure if it is the backend that is causing the issue but thought I'd mention it just in case.  Below is how my script is set up.  It checks each row in a table to see if it is populated.  If the first drop down in that row is not populated then it goes down to the next row until it reaches the last row in the table. It may just be that my If statment is incorrect but I have tested many options for this and found this one to work on my local machine.     Private Sub JobNumber_Click() 'Copyright Notice: The following code was origina

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Hello all.AVAppGetActiveDoc works fine for single document. It returns me current active AVDoc and then I can copy it to file and then process:AVDoc pAVDoc = AVAppGetActiveDoc(); PDDoc pDoc = AVDocGetPDDoc(pAVDoc); PDDocCopyToFile(pDoc, &params);Portfolio pdf also comes as single pdf file and contains several inside. But unfortunatly AVAppGetActiveDoc does not return a collection object, it returns the one selected in the Porfolio. As the result I can not copy to file the full Portfolio document:PDDoc pDoc = AVDocGetPDDoc(pAVDoc); PDCollection pdCollection = PDDocGetPDCollection(pDoc); PDCollectionIsValid(pdCollection); // FALSEIs there any way to get the Portfolio object instead of internal pdf one?

Hello, I'm trying to make an interactive/fillable PDF form. I'm new to this, so I might need some walking through.. 1) If the sentence starts with Perfect. (in this case, the only word in the field will be Perfect.)for the font color to change to blue, (normally red as default).> Will the font change back to red if Perfect. is deleted?Because I only need it to be blue in this one case. 2) If the sentence starts with Suggested Answer : to have those first two words and the colon to be italicized, but not the rest of the text. I was told that these require some complicated solutions. But I'd appreciate any help I can get!Thank you.

I am looking to create a PDF form. This form would contain drop down lists to select from various items. Then I would like to export this form into a new document that contains a detailed description for each of my drop down selections from that form. For example;if I select:Line 1 (color) drop down  select "Red"Line 2 (material) drop down select "Plywood",Can I "export" this form and the new document read:Color: Red; Corvette red with PPG durablast vibrant color.Material: Plywood; OBS brand plywood with 800 dpi I am looking to have a form that has selections with limtied details, but then export it to a file that pulls a full descrption of my selections, including say a price for said selection. Is this possbile? If so, where can I start? Look for informationon how to make this type of document?

I am getting the error of "expecting a number object" while trying to insert a file into a large PDF of 163 pages.  What does this mean and how do I correct it?

Whenever I set the scale ratio, it doesn't measure using what I entered, it rounds up. For instance, I enter .125 inches but it rounds to .13. It also happens when I enter other inch ratios too. The measuring is then just an estimate measurement not true to the scale. I'm trying to measure in feet. How do I stop that rounding from happening? Rounding throws measuring and dimensions off, I would like to measure using the scale I enter not the rounded dimension. Would someone know how to do it? Thanks.