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July 19, 2016
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Acrobat SDK vs. PDF Library SDK (especially for AcroForms)

  • July 19, 2016
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Dear all,

i'd like to develop an application for formatting an AcroForm and reading and setting the value within the AcroForm. Therefor I'd like to use some methods from an existing API. I've got a couple of questions:

1) What are the differences of Acrobat SDK and PDF Library SDK? (see Acrobat DC SDK Documentation)

Among others: Does Acrobat SDK and PDF Library SDK use the same PDF Library API? Just another subset of it? How is the licensing and the pricing? Is my suggested application above a so called "PDF Library Application"? How about the Acrobat Forms API - it is part of the Extended API for Plug-in but it isn't part of the PDF Library API?

2) What approaches do I have for formatting and setting/reading the value of an AcroForm?

Can I use both SDKs for it? (it seems so, see Adobe PDF Library SDK | Adobe Developer Connection) What are advantages/disadvantages? From which API the methods come from? (Acrobat Forms API?)

Thanks for every information regarding theses points

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    Correct answer lrosenth

    The PDFLibrary SDK is a subset of the Acrobat SDK that can be used w/o the need for Acrobat. One of the things that is not present in the PDFLibrary SDK is the Acrobat Forms APIs that you mention.

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    lrosenth
    Adobe Employee
    lrosenthCorrect answer
    Adobe Employee
    July 19, 2016

    The PDFLibrary SDK is a subset of the Acrobat SDK that can be used w/o the need for Acrobat. One of the things that is not present in the PDFLibrary SDK is the Acrobat Forms APIs that you mention.

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    zweitausendzehnAuthor
    Participant
    July 20, 2016

    Thanks for your answer,

    Am I able with the Acrobat SDK to

    - Access / save a PDF/A documents,

    - Process xmp metadata (read, write),

    - Process AcroForms fields (read, write and format them)?

    lrosenth
    Adobe Employee
    lrosenth
    Adobe Employee
    July 20, 2016

    Yes to all three.

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