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Pavel Savenkov
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April 29, 2012
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How to open Adobe Reader file from another native IOS application?

  • April 29, 2012
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I use iPad application to catalog my eBooks. It does not store eBooks itselves but allows to specify iOS link to open external file from another iPad application. How such link would look like in case of Adobe Reader? As far as I understood Adobe should register somewhat "URL Scheme". Note: file names may contain whitespaces. For example: "Java Concurrency In Practice.pdf".

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Magadanski_Uchen
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November 4, 2013

I'm developing a PhoneGap application that shows a list of PDF files an currently those open in the same app with no back button or whatever. The option of a URI scheme to open files in Adobe Reader would be exactly what I need. Similar issue to mine is described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13375472/add-open-in-ibooks-to-uiwebview so it seems this would be helpful to a lot of people.

Pat Wibbeler
Adobe Employee
Pat Wibbeler
Adobe Employee
May 3, 2012

We do register to handle PDF's and you should see us in the "Open In..." dialog that many apps support. If you don't see us after you've installed the Reader, it's possible that we're scrolled to the bottom of the list. It's not immediately obvious that the open in list is scrollable (with a swipe up). If you still can't see us, can you please let me know which app you're trying to view the PDF from?

Thank you!

Pat

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PavelSavenkov1
Participant
May 4, 2012

Pat,

May be I was not quite specific, but my question was completely different. I'll give you an example based on another pdf reader - GoodReader.

I imported file "OReilly - Java RMI.pdf" into GoodReader. GoodReader exposes this file through URL, which looks like this:

gropen://0/OReilly%20-%20Java%20RMI.pdf?cc=1

I use this URL from "Book Crawler" application to open and browse eBook in GoodReader. Make a note that "Book Crawler" never imports eBook file.

Can Adobe Reader expose its eBooks using similar URL's?

Pat Wibbeler
Adobe Employee
Pat Wibbeler
Adobe Employee
May 17, 2012

I understand now. What do you use this for? To be honest, this is the first time I've heard this request (or seen this feature in GoodReader). It helps us to understand how people would use this when considering whether or not to add a feature to the product. Every feature adds a little complexity and we prefer to add features that have broad application.

Thanks for your feedback!

Pat

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