Guidance Setting Up Visual Studio 2019 CS Environment

[Anon5C7D]

Hello All,

I've been trying to figure out a way to render multiple PDFs within a WinForm using Visual CS and Visual Studio 2019. Namely I'm looking to provide a solution to search through PDFs and display locations of these search patterns side-by-side.

I've currently been able to display PDFs through a WebBrowser object, which isn't directly supported by Acrobat based on the 1st URL below. This is when I stumbled across mention about the SDK and started reading into the documentation, which is the 2nd URL below.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/using-acropdf-dll-within-microsoft.html

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/

Currently, I haven't been able to find any documentation explaining the DLLs I need to reference within my solution. I've stumbled arcoss this 'AcroPDFLib' file found in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX' folder, but it doesn't seem to to have all the method calls explained in the IAC section of the documentation.

I should also mention I'm looking to control Adobe Reader DC and I do not have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Are the libraries I need to use located somewhere else on my system, or do I need a copy of Pro to obtain these?

Thanks in advance.

[Bernd Alheit]

What parts of IAC want you use?

[Anon5C7D]

Hi Bernd,

I'm not exactly sure what I would specifically need, but I believe it might involved AVDoc, PDDoc, and/or PDPage objects. I'm still reading in on the documenations trying to get an understanding of the underlining API.

I'm looking for a way to automate looking for search patterns and controlling the render view of PDFs, but through a WinForm as the container.

[Bernd Alheit]

For this you need an installation of Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro.

[Anon5C7D]

Hi Bernd,

I might be mistaken on what I needed. I ran into a stack overflow post talking about using the 'Adobe Reader ActiveX' control and adding it to the WinForm.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2220134/displaying-a-pdf-file-from-winform

This might be what I'm after, and I have been able to render a file using this snippit of code. I'm still looking into it, but I might only need to use the AxAcroPDF portion of the IAC. It looks like there is references to two DLL files that a project needs to implement:

- AxInterop.AcroPDFLib.dll

- Interop.AcroPDFLib.dll

I'm fortunite enough that someone in my company has already implemented a program which includes theses files, but would you know where I can locate them? Are they located in the Adobe Reader DC install directory, or downloaded from a web page?

[Bernd Alheit]

May be the files are part of the Acrobat Reader installation.