Acrobat Reader Plugin - how to detect save

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Hello,we are developing a plugin for Acrobat / Acrobat Reader. The user opens a PDF with form-fields. Now he want to save his inputs. In Acrobat he could do this without problems but in Acrobat Reader only a "Save As" is possible. To write back the PDF in our system I need to detect when the user saves the PDF and under which filename it was saved. I need an event in the plugin like "DocumentSaved" which passes the filename or some other mechanism to store back the saved document in our system. Any ideas? Greetings Stefan Westner

Thom Parker · Answer

If by plug-in, you mean the writting a C++ DLL using the Acrobat SDK, then there several events related Saving a PDF that can be registered.

But if you are talking about a JavaScript Add-in, then there is no direct way to easily detect when a file is saved. One indirect method might be to monitor the "dirty" property of the open PDFs.

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