Acrobat SDK

I'm trying to determine if it's possible to automate the Acrobat DC Compare Files tool, either through the API or JavaScript. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I posted the following question in the Adobe LiveCycle forum, but it appears to be hidden or something. The link to the post goes to a 404 error if the person is not signed in to the board, apparently. So I'm reposting it here, and apologies, I know this isn't a LiveCycle forum, but I'm getting a bit desperate for help._____________________________ I have an old form that was created by someone else in 2015 in LiveCycle. I am working on it in Designer but have very little experience with it; I'm mostly learning by doing.I have two text fields where I need to have a character count, one for characters used and another for characters remaining. Even though I'm working from the original file where this worked, in my new version I keep getting errors, even though I haven't changed anything.The first field is called shorttitle which has a 40 character max, and the count shows the characters left. The next one is abstract, and that needs to be an expandable text box and the character co

Hello! I'm new here, and also using Adobe, but I'm trust on some of you have the solution to my problem, because I spent days try to do, but when I download the document is exactly the same, I don't know if I'm putting the javaScript in the wrong side, or javaScript code is being ignored by the API...So first of all, thanks in advance.  My version of Adobe is Adobe Acrobat PRO 2017 and the thing is, I need to show a page to the document if a value of the form is equal to 3, in other case, then show another page and hide the previous one. Other thing that I can do is put the text in the document inside a form field, and condition the field with the same condition that I mentioned, but applied to fields, but I don't know who can I do that neither. I don't want to use mouse up or something like that, the document need to be automatically generated with following these conditions. Thanks again,  Silvia. 

Hi, everyone. I have a script in drop down field named "MODEL". It has two options is the list, G2500 and ONYX. Depending the selection, the script changes/sets the items of the list. When I try to select an item from the drop down list G1CDU other than first item, it goes back to the first item. So, I'm not able to select any other item.this.getField("G1CDU").clearItems(); switch (event.value) { case "G2500": this.getField("G1CDU").setItems([ "Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"]); break; case "ONYX": this.getField("G1CDU").setItems([ "Item 4", "Item 5", "Item 6"]); break; } Can you please help me in this regard?

Hello! I'm hoping some one can help me out there.  I'm using Acrobat DC.  I have a form that has a small area that I can't seem to figure out how to make it do what I want, if it's even possible.  I would like a set of radio buttons to only appear if another check box is selected AND for them to dissapear when the check box is deselected.  I can make the first part happen by adding a "show/hide" action but this only works one time.  If the check box is deselected the radio buttons stay visible.  If this has to been accomplished by using a javascript, please site an example as I am a complete newbie at that.  Thanks!

I have been trying to set up dynamic page numbering for a fillable form I have created. There are several fields on the form that cause pages to either spawn or delete, so I am wanting the script to auto update the page numbers and the total number of pages. I have been researching this for several days online and have found several different scripts and none of them seem to work properly. This is the one that has made the most headway. event.value = "Page " + (event.target.page + 1) + " of " + (this.numPages); The problem I am running into is that when I use the event.target.page I get weird answers like "-1,21 of 4" then "-1,31 of 4" on the next page, etc. Does anyone know why the form is calculating this way? The number is increasing, I guess, on each page and the total number of pages is correct, but that number formatting is wrong. I have also tried this variation: event.value = "Page " + (this.pageNum +1) + " of  " + (this.numPages); That script just

I'm having the worst time trying to find answers to this...What I have is a PDF document that consists of several individual forms.  I want to set up the whole document so that when you open it, it immediately creates an options box that allows you to choose the form(s) you want, and when you click OK, it generates only those forms.  I know how to code the appearance of the options box, but I have no idea how or where to code it to actually make it work.  I think it's in the docReady event, but beyond that I'm stumped. I'm working in LiveCycle, ver. 11.0.1.[...].  Thanks in advance.

Hi All,I am looking into the feature for enabling/disabling share, export and auto save feature in Adoebe Acrobat Reader DC. I have been looking into couple of days. So far my findings are as follows,1. We could modify the registery keys to disable the Share feature by setting bEnableShareFile to 0. I set this property at "\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\AVGeneral".2. Hide the menu items by using app.hideMenuItem("Share File"); Both of the options are not working for me. I must be missing on something.Is it possible to enable/disable the share file, export pdf and auto save feature?Please note that I am new to Acrobat/Reader plugin development though I had some experience in photoshop, illustration extension development. Any help would be appreciated. Regards!

Greetings:I am working on an employee on-boarding packet with fillable fields and QR codes for scanning into our document managemet system.I have a seed page that captures name, address, etc of the new employee (completed by the HR Representative). These fields are repeated throughout the document and autopopulate becuase I use the same field names for each field; ie I have 3 FirstName fields, 3 LastName fields, etc..Information from the seed page is used to calculate QR codes with metadata for ultimate scanning into our document management system.Once the seed data is complete, I selectively flatten (the HR representative selects a button which performs the function) the repeating fields throughout the document so they can not be modified further. I also, or so I thought, flattened my QR codes, so it would maintain the image first created.I thought I had flattened the QR code as I included the field name in my list of fields to be flattened.As soon as my new employee types in anything

I require to make the number entered in the field look alike Rs.10,10,10,100.10/- as such is the indian currency format but i am unable to find any such separator style in which it can separate like indian style, can you provide me with some custom format script so that it looks alike indian currency format Karl Heinz Kremer​

Hi, I am working in Acrobat DC and created a terms and conditions form used for clients to sign and return.  One of the dropdown selections allow the client to either "Authorize" or "Not Authorized" us to use their credit card.  There are several text fields, whereby the default is "Not Required", however if they select "Authorize", I want those text fields to change to "Required".  I have tried custom validation scripts recommended in other posts, but when selecting the "Authorize" option in the dropdown, those text fields still DO NOT change to required.  The current script I am using is in the dropdown field: this.getField("Name of text field").required = (event.value=="OTHER"); I have also tried similar script in each of the text fields, but to no avail. I also tried to use this.calculateNow(); in the document level javascript, but again, doesn't change text fields to required after the dropdown selection. Summary, any of the custom vali

Hi,How can I insert pages from one PDF file into another PDF file in the following way using Acrobat Javascript?Page1 of source PDF file will be insterted after page 1 of destination PDF file, page 2 of source file after page 2 of destination file etc keep inserting until last page n of source file is insterted after page n of dest file? (both source and destination pdf files have same number of pages) Thank you! 

I am specifying the AVDocPermRequest callback as part of the _t_AVDocOpenParams during opening of a pdf document. Even though the callback is called for some of the operations like edit, annotate.. Some of the permissions are not being accessed or honored by most of the adobe tools as well.  Few scenarios which are failing:PDPermReqOprOnline was working till the latest release and the adobe cloud was being disabled for the document, in the latest release even this is not honored, the upload to cloud and share a link are active inspite of denying this permPDPermReqOprUIemail was working in one of the old releases of Acrobat probably 2017, never seem to work on the latest DC release, i.e., denying this permission is not disabling the email option.Never could get compare and combine tools to disable its options inspite of denying all the permissions. User can easily extract pages and create new PDF these permissions are not honored at all. We are creating a plugin

Hi,I am creating PDF files using the Adobe PDF printer using a C++ program.I would like to lock the PDF to prevent further editing. Only changing of the content of the PDF to be prevented, the signing shall be allowed. I have to do it programmatically.Please clarify API to lock the PDF programmatically.Regards,Mathews

I have Adobe Acrobat DC (updated to 15.006.30119) being used with a Windows 10 system and a Chrome browser (updated to Version 48.0.2564.109 m).  The Adobe plug-in is enabled and we can see the Adobe button used to convert a web page to a PDF.  However, when when we try to convert any web page to a PDF via Chrome (selecting "Convert Webpage to PDF ...") we get an error notice "Conversion Failure" with no other information.  When I try to use the same extension in Internet Explorer 11, nothing happens at all (no error message and no PDF created).Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this?

There is any way of moving a file or copy and delete it in JavaScript? I want to make a action that OCR the pdf file and after completion move it to another folder.. That would be very usefull. Thank you in advance

I have a PDF document with form fields that is 3 pages long. I have considered this my "Template". However, some users may need this template to extend up to 17 pages long sometimes and when I merge another page of course it duplicates because the form fields are the same name. How can I add similar pages but not have two particular form fields duplicate?

Good Morning, I am trying to revise a form that was created by a predecessor of mine which uses' many custom calculation scripts that are inter-related as a way of form validation. I am trying to add my own custom calculation script to a box (Box27b) that will require information to be placed into it per our standards. But, once I sign the document (IAOsign) I would like for that information to disappear/redact from the document, while still leaving the many other numours fields inside of the document in its read-only state upon my signature.

I have an acrobat form with 2 pages. Page 1 is interview questions with open-ended text boxes to record responses and page 2 has more interview questions, but the possible responses are in dropdown boxes instead of open-ended textboxes. A dropdown on page 2 ('Type') currently has a keystroke event to reset the entire form. Once you change the selection on this 'Type' dropdown, the entire document is reset. The keystroke event is :  if (event.willCommit) this.resetForm() I want to reset the dropboxes on page 2 only, but leave the textboxes on page 1 untouched. How do I do this in Javascript?

Hey, I need help to use values from two different textboxes and show the result in the third box.example: Box1: 15 (adjacent)Box2: 115 (hyptotenuse)Box3: I need the sin angle Anybody that can help me with the "Math.asin" code for this? Thank u in advance!! 

I created a form with 3 pages. I tried to have pages 2 and 3 as Templates and hide them. But when I create templates and hide the one related to page 2, I have an Adobe pop-up error "Paramètre erroné" and even if I click OK it won't disapear.I already tried to combine my PDF with a blank one and then delete the extra page but it didn't work. (Solution I found in Adobe Help)Since it took me 2 weeks to create my form and it has a lot of JS calculations, start again is not a solution. What are you proposing  ? 

Hi. I've got a problem. I'm looking for a way to make a two different font styles in one box. I managed to make a fillable form that has a default text like:[  company name ]when the user writes down his company's name the text disappears, or when he clears his data, the default text is back. That works fineWhat I try to do is to make a default text in italic style, while the user written text would be in bold style.Is it possible to achieve through some Java script? To make two different font styles in one box?Thanks in advance 😉 

I have a batch of stamps I use for marking up documents in Acrobat, and see I can only do one at a time. I'm running the latest release of Acrobat on my Mac (Cataline). How can I add more than one to the Stamps palette? Is this possible?I'm more than comfortable running a Terminal command or dredging through the Contents folder. Thanks!

Hi,  Is there any on-premise server side solution available to compare PDF files similar to the Acrobat desktop application ? 

I am studying the Acrobat DC SDK Documentation, which states that I should register a four character prefix with Adobe for my plug-in.  How is that done?  Whom should I contact?