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April 24, 2022
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Adobe Acrobat SDK with Adobe Reader

  • April 24, 2022
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Hello, I am William from Indonesia.

 

I want to automatically fill a PDF Form via Visual Basic Application. The PDF Form was created by the government and it requires Adobe Reader DC to open it. I have tried to open the PDF Form with Adobe Acrobat Pro but it failed miserably.

 

Meanwhile, in order to manipulate a PDF form programatically, we need to use Adobe Acrobat SDK. But Adobe Acrobat SDK cannot be used without Adobe Acrobat Pro as far as I know. 

 

Can anyone suggest a solution for my problem? Manually fill out the form is very daunting task. So I want to automate it with Excel's VBA.

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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Test Screen Name
Legend
April 24, 2022

You are correct, the Acrobat SDK is designed for use with Acrobat (it is there to sell more copies of Acrobat). 

 

Please explain " I have tried to open the PDF Form with Adobe Acrobat Pro but it failed miserably."

There should be no files that open in Reader but not in Acrobat Pro.

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Participant
April 24, 2022

Yes, explained by the picture below

The equivalent translation for the error message is "Please use Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this form"

 

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Test Screen Name
Legend
April 24, 2022

Ok this message is made by the form. The Govenment put it there to stop you using Acrobat I guess. Very unusual. 

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