Where do I find the documentation for the AcroPDF.dll?

[Filosoft]

When using JavaScript on a webpage it is possible to access the Acrobat Reader Plugin as an ActiveXControl. When doing so there is a list of methods and properties you can call and get/set. There is methods like: postMessage, gotoFirstPage and execCommand. They are all possible to find the name of because they are published through the  AcroPDF.dll. The way to access the AcroPDF.dll in JavaScript on a webpage can be done something like following:

...

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">

...

var App = new ActiveXObject('AcroPDF.PDF.1');
App.LoadFile('C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\Res.pdf');

...

</script>
...

These methods and properties are not the same as what you can do through JavaScripting inside a PDF-document. What I have been searching for without luck is the documentaion for is that limited number of methods and properties that is accessible in the AcroPDF.dll.

Where do I find the documentation for exactly the public methods and properties in the AcroPDF.dll - the syntax, format and possible values etc. for each method and property?

[Bernd Alheit]

Look at the Acrobat Interapplication Communication Reference.

[Filosoft]

Thank you for your efford. But I have been there.

Unfortunately there is no description of the public methods and properties in AcroPDF.dll in the document http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/iac_api_reference.pdf

So my question is still open

[Phillip James Gordon]

Try the Adobe Acobat SDK

There is a lot of documentation in there

Phillip

[Filosoft]

Thank you.

In the OnLine documentation for the Adobe Acrobat SDK you find following page:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/IAC_API_OLE_Objects.103.167.html

This is a list of all methods and properties public in the AcroPDF ActiveXControl. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Unfortunately the ExecCommand is NOT listed and explaned. It is the method I want a description of, because I want to simulate a click on some of the commands on the toolbar in the document

[John T Smith]

This is the forum for users... you might want to ask in the forum for programmers

Acrobat Scripting Forum http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/acrobat_scripting

or

Acrobat SDK Developer Forum http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/acrobat_sdk

[Bernd Alheit]

This document lists all documented methods of the PDF browser control.