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Anonymous
April 17, 2015
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Adobe PDF Reader Control

  • April 17, 2015
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Greetings all,

I am trying to add Adobe PDF Reader control to my project, once I drag-drop on the form, it shows the following error:

Any Idea how to solve it?

Thanking you

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askmoller
askmoller
Participant
July 22, 2015

Enable pdf for browser by following these steps in Internet Explorer: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/display-pdf-in-browser.html

It should solve your problem. You do not need to downgrade anything.

When you get it running the API documentation comes in handy http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/iac_api_reference.pdf

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Anonymous
April 19, 2015

Is this SDK for Visual Studio 2013? it requires 2010 to be installed, and then it requires Adobe 9.0 or XI not "Acrobat Reader DC" which is the latest !!

Kindly confirm

lrosenth
Adobe Employee
lrosenth
Adobe Employee
April 19, 2015

Acrobat Reader DC’s SDK has not yet been released.

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Anonymous
April 19, 2015

One issue, open different multiple issues, without any clear answer !!

This SDK Requires Old Adobe version, and Requires old Visual Studio Version as well, what should be done? shall I downgrade my development environment to be able to use this feature in my application?

on the other hand, why there is no 64-bit Adobe Reader? as I already explained above in this thread?

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Test Screen Name
Legend
April 19, 2015

Is this control and method one of those listed in the Acrobat SDK? It is vital to use the documentation, you will find many registered controls which are not intended for development.

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Anonymous
April 19, 2015

Thank you for your reply,

This control is added by choosing Items from "COM Components" in Visual Studio, and it is added to Toolbox control as "Adobe PDF Reader" which references to "AcroPDF.dll"

by the way, I just want to get your attention to the following points:

1- The purpose of this to allow user preview PDF file before selecting them "like windows explorer"

2- I noticed the file "AcroPDF.dll"  goes under x86 programs which means it is 32-bit, while my OS is 64-bit and CPU is 64-bit as well

Thanking you

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Legend
April 19, 2015

So have you downloaded and installed the SDK at all?

I emphasise that finding components in COM explorer for Acrobat/Reader automation is most unwise, use only documented methods.

pwillener
pwillener
Legend
April 19, 2015

[topic moved to Acrobat SDK forum]

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