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Hello All,
I am planning to write plug in for acrobat reader. My requirement is When you open any padf file, i want to add new meny option "Save to SP", this will popup custom user interface and will ask few questions.
Based on the questions, program decides upload location in SharEPoint online sites. On finish, it will upload pdf file to one of the SharePoint online site.
Questions are
1) What all development options available? Javascript or other SDK
2) Can this functionality possible in Acrobat reader, as we are not modifying anything in PDF file. This custom UI will just upload PDF file to SharePoint.
Thanks in advance for your feedback and guiding me on this
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Plugins for Reader require getting a special license from Adobe, which is complicated and expensive.
I think that a script (written in JavaScript) can do everything you described, and it can be developed and distributed for free. There's no real need for a plugin.
You will have to install it on every machine, though, but that's the same with a plugin...
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Hi,
Great and appreciate your quick reply on this.
I will now explore Javascript option for developing this piece of functionality.
I am referring to following links for this.
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/js_api_reference.pdf
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/javascript_console/
I hope these two links will give me jumpstart for my functionality.
Thanks again
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Yes, that's definitely a good starting point. I would also recommend these tutorials:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/trust-and-privilege-in-acrobat-scripts
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/using_trusted_functions
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Great thank you very much, I will go thorugh these links now.
Really appreciate your quick response today
thanks again
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Hello All, Its me again Sorry got dragged to another project for a while but back to PDF Addin.
I am struggling to find out basic documents like How and where to copy JS file on Windows machine so that I can view custom button or Custom Save as option in PDF. this is for Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (2021.005.20048)
Appreciate your reply any useful link regarding this