CopyFile Seems to Not Work in Adobe Acrobat Protected Mode

[rajshekar_5454]

Hi everyone,

I’m facing an issue while trying to copy an entire document in Adobe Acrobat Protected Mode. The same code works perfectly fine in Non-Protected Mode, but it fails in Protected Mode.

I have already:
Given the right permissions to my working directory.
Whitelisted my entire C drive.

Still, the CopyFile operation doesn't seem to work. I am not sure what I am missing, and I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Here is the relevant code:

AVDoc avDoc = AVAppGetActiveDoc();
PDDoc doc = AVDocGetPDDoc(avDoc);
PDDocSave(doc, PDSaveIncremental, NULL, ASGetDefaultFileSys(), NULL, NULL); // Save first

ASFile f = PDDocGetFile(doc);
ASFileSys fs = ASFileGetFileSys(f);
ASPathName pn = ASFileAcquirePathName(f);
char* fn = ASFileSysDisplayStringFromPath(fs, pn);
char bfn[MAX_PATH + 1], nfn[MAX_PATH + 1];

StringCopy(bfn, sizeof(bfn), fn);
PathRemoveExtension(bfn);
StringCat(bfn, sizeof(bfn), " - Copy");
StringCopy(nfn, sizeof(nfn), bfn);
StringCat(nfn, sizeof(nfn), ".pdf");

for (int i = 2; i < 100; i++) {
    if (!PathFileExists(nfn))
        break;
    StringPrintf(nfn, sizeof(nfn), "%s%d.pdf", bfn, i);
}

if (!CopyFile(fn, nfn, TRUE)) {
    MessageBox(NULL, "Error copying file", "Error", MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR);
    throw 0;
}

[Thom Parker · Accepted solution]

Protected mode restricts access to the local file system, so the Windows API functions won't work, unless you create a broker. 

But the solution is simple. Save the PDF to the new location using the Acrobat SDK functions. Then you avoid the restriction.