Acrobat Services API

The PDF Embed API seem to use  a sort of lazy rendering, for example if you zoom a page and then scroll to another page you may just get a blurry upscaled version of the page and then after a time it renders the page again and it snaps back to being a sharp image, similar on load if you scroll the page can be initially blank until it renders.Unfortunately I can't see there is any event so say that rendering is now complete. Use case for this is that users staring at a blurred or blank screen for a while tend to complain, and also specifically in our case the user is meant to be reviewing the PDF and not aware the blurred page is just temporarily while waiting to render the page.  The event would be useful so we could display some spinner to notify the user tha app is currently busy rendering.TIARob  

Hello   I am developing the Acrobat Leader plug-in.The plug-in sample DocSign is being tested and no signature-related procedures (PSSigGetSigPropertiesProc, PSSigGetSigValueProc, PSSigValidateProc, ...) are called.Can I ask this question here?Or can I join the Admin Console and ask questions to get help?  

Is there some property that can be checked to see if the sdk is ready rather than listening for the event. Would just checking for the existence of  adobeDCView be enough?Reason for this is because of the way our app is constructed the sdk gets loaded and completes before the code that attaches the listener, so it never hears the event.  ThanksRob

There are times where I want to stop viewing a PDF in our app as the user will be doing other actions, like viewing other media.So I want to unload a PDF from the Viewer so as to release resources but may return to view another PDF later.How can I do that?  TIARob

Is this the right place for a Feature Request 🙂If a pdf fails to load/render an event type 'APP_RENDERING_FAILED' is fired but there is no indication of why it failed.It would be useful to at least know if it failed becuase the file wasn't found or access was denied or it was corrupt and failed to parse/render.This would help support to deal with users. TIARob

Hi,  I encountered this weird rendering issue regarding PDF Embed API This is the desktop Adobe Acrobat Pro DC rendering result.Below is what happens using PDF Embed API. The shadow effect is not rendered correctly.Below is what happens after zoom in. Some pictures and text are hidden.  PDF used 

I have a google web apps script that delivers a web page and am trying to embed the pdf viewer to display pdf's from google drive, but am failing even with the example code. I have created a credential for the gsuite user running the apps script, and the script works without the embedded viewer.  When i run it with the embedded viewer I get an error message, how can i make this work / get the right credentials?  error message is - File preview not available; This application domain (https://n-w7drqfmvzgqptnxawu3wfueo6gcdcos4n6gmjxy-0lu-script.googleusercontent.com) is not authorized to use the provided PDF Embed API Client ID.   

Just started to look at using the API to replace our current pdf viewer in our commercial web app.In some cases we have to run our app on a web server that is behind a firewall, will this solution work in that instance or does it always require an open access to the internet?ThanksRob

I am the membership coordinator for a relatively small organization.  I need a way to email a form to members, asking them to update their basic personal information: name, addy, email, phone.  I also need them to verify that they have paid dues and when.  I have an Excel Membership roster already and I would like this form to update that spreadsheet automatically.  Can I use Adobe forms to do this?  I am not an Adobe or Excel expert.

Hello, I activated the Embed API and, I think, I followed the instructions but it still not working. When trying to access to the API with the key, I receive this: This application domain (https://staging-ilha.herokuapp.com) is not authorized to use the provided PDF Embed API Client ID. However, here is my setup:  I don't get what's going wrong 🙂 The error:  Thanks a lot !Gordon

Dear All, I am using Adobe SDK to develop .api. Using sample code - basicplugin project. It can be built successfully. I put .api into adobe plugins directory. Reopen Acrobat and it can show menu. But it will show “invalid plugin detected. Adobe Reader will quit". I don't know if it needs to be enable by using tools Makekeys and singpluing to enable .api.  Thanks and best regards,Tony 

For Administrators, is there anyway to leverage Adobe API and know how users are using Acrobat DC?   Let's assume, I've about 10000 Acrobat users in my organisation and we would like to know what is the use case for Acrobat. i.e creating PDF/ Printing / Editing.   Thank you.

The demo works fine. But when I try to use PDF Embed API to place my own PDF, I get a File Preview error. I see other posts on this forum with the same problem but can't find an answer. I appreciate any feedback. Thanks. <!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Adobe Document Services PDF Embed API Sample</title><meta charset="utf-8"/><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"/><meta id="viewport" name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/></head><body style="margin: 0px"><div id="adobe-dc-view"></div><script src="https://documentcloud.adobe.com/view-sdk/main.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">document.addEventListener("adobe_dc_view_sdk.ready", function(){var adobeDCView = new AdobeDC.View({clientId: "ba22b551b7624c22b6dc4f87a7ab2701", divId: "adobe-dc-view"});adobeDCView.previewFile({content: {location: {url:"https://bearessentialnews.com/images/Stem

Hello,We are a document service company and recieve large print jobs that consist of mostly pdf's. Sometimes these documents have several page sizes in one pdf and are a mixture of black and white and color. Some clients request a quote for the job before and this can be a long time consuming process.Is there a batch function or adobe app that can analyze PDF documents for page size and give you a list of all page sizes found ? Also is there a function that can detect visible color and not coded color, as in you can scan a black and white document in color, it will still look black and white but when printed on a color printer will usecolor tonner and not black and white tonner. Thanks.  

Hello, I am new to the PDF Embed API and I am not really a developer, but I am pretty good at playing around and figuring things out. I am playing with the PDF Embed API. We have long lists of downloadable pdfs for our products. I would like to have one column of pdf links on a side panel, and when one of our customers clicks on a link, have the linked to pdf open in the embedded window, which is located in the main column of the product page. So far I can have one snippet of code for one link, but I would like to have different links open up in the embedded window as a customer clicks on them. I am trying to get away from our customers opening new tabs or navigating away from our webpage as they look through our downloadables. How do I adjust the code to support this?

Hi Adobe Forum,We have a unique request, not sure if it's possible, but would appreciate some guidance if it is.1. When adding an annotation, is it possible to get the selected text from that annotation, not only the bounding boxes?2. Is it possible to programatticaly do a text search in a document?3. If yes, is it possible to limit search to the current page you are on, and not the complete document? Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated! PS: Love what the people at Adobe are doing!!!

Hi,We are trying to integrate the PDF Embed API into our website to enhance the client experience of viewing the PDF documents. We have followed the guidelines from Adobe documentation to obtain the client ID registered to our domain.We have realized that we have to include "https://documentcloud.adobe.com/view-sdk/main.js" script to render the PDF viewer (This script internally makes multiple calls to other script files). Our firm has restrictions loading the above script and our cyber team has raised concerns over including a third party script in our website. Is there any way, we can download the PDF Embed API scripts to our code repository and start consuming without making any request to https://documentcloud.adobe.com. Note: We are using Adobe Experience Manager to build our website. Please let us know any alternative approach/options. Thanks in advance.

I have tried numerous versions of this code to and I'm still getting some kind of error. The latest indicates that my API credentials do not include the domain I'm using. Here's the error: This is a screen shot of the page on Adobe Console that shows the credentials along with the domain registered This is the code I'm using for the Light Box version that includes my credentials and the pdf direct link (from our domain).<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Adobe Document Services PDF Embed API Sample</title> <meta charset="utf-8"/> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"/> <meta id="viewport" name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/> <script type="text/javascript" src="index.js"></script> </head> <!-- Customize page layout style according to your need and PDF file for best viewing experience --> <body style="margin: 0px; background-color:

Getting the error "File preview Error" File preview not available, please reload to try again.

I have a Form PDF and a Combo Box, and I need to apply the changed value inmmediately for the Save Button to appear in the Viewer.The Save button only appears if I click elsewhere on the page, outside of the combo box.I have selected the option: "Commit selected value immediately" (CommitOnSelChange) in Combo Box Properties, but it doesn't seem to work in the Viewer. 

Hi,I'm using an external analytics API on my site. For it to be able to track activity in iframes, they say I need to include the tracking code into said iframes as well. In other cases, even for iframes from other domains, this simple thing worked:<iframe src="..."> <script> //tracking code </script> </iframe> But with the PDF Embed API I'm starting with a div, in which the iframe is created dynamically. Is there any way I can get my tracking code there?I tried adding the tracking code into the iframe.innerHTML after it's created but that doesn't seem to work for the tracking...Thanks in advance!

I would like to use a set of custom buttons outside the viewer to navigate through the document, and hide the viewer's interface. The showPageControls parameter doesn't seem to do anything when embedMode is SIZED_CONTAINER.  Can the page controls be hidden? There is an undocumented showTopBar parameter in the JavaScript code, but it doesn't seem to do anything, either.  Can the top bar be hidden?

I need to create a PDF from HTML with only page number as footer instead of Metadata like filename.Since Customizing footers are not provided with the documentation, is there any way to add only page number to the exported file,

I am using assembly of Adobe.DocumentCloud.Services to convert report from word into PDF, Only Avenir faimly fonts not working and all other fonts working in PDF, this fonts is working in WORD doc.There is not any option to embed this fonts. Please help me how this fonts will work when i will convert into PDF from word. 

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