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SDK documentation missing from SDK

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September 18, 2017
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I've download and installed the SDK.

Where is the documentation for the SDK?

I'm looking for latest documentation regarding IAC.

where's the iac_api_reference.pdf?

where's the iac_developer_guild.pdf?

any other pdfs?

What kind of crap sdk is this?

Adobe should be ashamed for even allowing this crap SDK to be downloaded from it's website.

CLEAN UP THE SDK and make it useful.

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Correct answer Karl Heinz Kremer

When you open the file "AcrobatSDK_readme.htm" in the ZIP archive you've downloaded, you will find a link to the documentation. The documentation is also available as a separate download from the Acrobat SDK web page. You can access both the direct download link, the links to download the SDK and the online version of the documentation from here: Acrobat DC SDK Documentation

Karl Heinz Kremer

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When you open the file "AcrobatSDK_readme.htm" in the ZIP archive you've downloaded, you will find a link to the documentation. The documentation is also available as a separate download from the Acrobat SDK web page. You can access both the direct download link, the links to download the SDK and the online version of the documentation from here: Acrobat DC SDK Documentation

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Karl, thank you for the info.

Here's what's in "AcrobatSDK_readme.htm"... the link to all the documentation.

Ok, clicked on that link, here are the choices:

What is Acrobat Distiller API? It's nice that everything refers to it, but doesn't exactly say what it is.

The introduction doesn't define it either (see below)

The documentation is using undefined terminology. Who is the content manager at Adobe?

So the DC SDK documentation talk about Distiller API's. Since Adobe doesn't tell us what the hell Distiller is, we have to use a quick google search for it. Google reports: "Adobe Acrobat Distiller is a computer program for converting documents from PostScript format to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format), the native format of the Adobe Acrobat family of products. It was first shipped as a component of Acrobat in 1993."

It says, distiller is for converting documents from PostScript to bla, bla, bla. We DON'T NEED TO CONVERT.

FULL STOP, WASTE OF TIME.

We ask again, where is the API documentation?

Oh wait, we have to magically know we need IAC for this...

Getting the picture? Confusing crap. We are not at all impressed with Adobe.

Clicking on the links for IAC, finally gets us to something useful for Acrobat DC, but what about legacy documentation? What about upgrading legacy apps to DC? We're not starting from scratch you know... more *dead ends*.

Karl Heinz Kremer

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You need to be familiar with Adobe Acrobat in order to use the Acrobat API, if you know Acrobat, you know that Distiller is part of the Acrobat installation (both Standard and Pro).

Have you tried the "Getting Started" section on the web page you captured above? In the "Overview" section is a chapter titled "Deciding which Acrobat SDK Technology to use" - I would start there.

All throughout the API documentation, you will find information about when a certain feature was introduced. It also lists deprecated or removed functionality.

Don't expect to be fluent in the Acrobat SDK after a few hours, or a few days - just like any complex SDK, it takes a long time to get familiar with it. The same is true for pretty much any SDK I've ever worked with.

I have worked with the Acrobat SDK for more than 20 years, and my experience is that everything you need (with very few exceptions when it comes to more complex areas of working with Acrobat) is there.

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