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Anonymous
April 17, 2015
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Adobe PDF Reader Control

  • April 17, 2015
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Greetings all,

I am trying to add Adobe PDF Reader control to my project, once I drag-drop on the form, it shows the following error:

Any Idea how to solve it?

Thanking you

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askmoller
askmoller
New Participant
July 22, 2015

Enable pdf for browser by following these steps in Internet Explorer: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/display-pdf-in-browser.html

It should solve your problem. You do not need to downgrade anything.

When you get it running the API documentation comes in handy http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/iac_api_reference.pdf

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Anonymous
April 19, 2015

Is this SDK for Visual Studio 2013? it requires 2010 to be installed, and then it requires Adobe 9.0 or XI not "Acrobat Reader DC" which is the latest !!

Kindly confirm

lrosenth
Adobe Employee
lrosenth
Adobe Employee
April 19, 2015

Acrobat Reader DC’s SDK has not yet been released.

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VisualStudioPlugIn
New Participant
June 24, 2015

There is no 64bit version of Adobe Acrobat (or Reader).


lrosenth wrote:

There is no 64bit version of Adobe Acrobat (or Reader).

What of these posts you made, then:  Re: The AcroPDF.PDF Class is no longer accessible from VisualBasic6 after update 11.0.0.7.

With Reader 11.0.7, we (finally!) now provide a 64bit version of AcroPDF.dll so that Reader can be used in 64bit browsers!   Great news for customers.

For those of you who are using modern development environment but had previous built your apps as 32 bit (because of AcroPDF) - you can now simply rebuild as either 64 only or "Any" and not only will things work again but you're app will now be 64bit!
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Test Screen Name
Brainiac
April 19, 2015

Is this control and method one of those listed in the Acrobat SDK? It is vital to use the documentation, you will find many registered controls which are not intended for development.

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Anonymous
April 19, 2015

Thank you for your reply,

This control is added by choosing Items from "COM Components" in Visual Studio, and it is added to Toolbox control as "Adobe PDF Reader" which references to "AcroPDF.dll"

by the way, I just want to get your attention to the following points:

1- The purpose of this to allow user preview PDF file before selecting them "like windows explorer"

2- I noticed the file "AcroPDF.dll"  goes under x86 programs which means it is 32-bit, while my OS is 64-bit and CPU is 64-bit as well

Thanking you

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Test Screen Name
Brainiac
April 19, 2015

So have you downloaded and installed the SDK at all?

I emphasise that finding components in COM explorer for Acrobat/Reader automation is most unwise, use only documented methods.

pwillener
pwillener
Brainiac
April 19, 2015

[topic moved to Acrobat SDK forum]

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