Developing a plugin for adobe acrobat

[ammar.nero]

I am trying to develop some software which works over the adobe acrobat software, essentially something like a plugin. The goal is to let users see some kind of interface on the adobe application to login and somplete some forms and then make api requests. Is there some way to have a html, css and javaScript based app running over the adobe acrobat application.

[Test Screen Name]

Acrobat plug-ins are event driven and can display OS windows. Plug-ins run only on the main thread. If you can create OS Windows that do these things you want to do, then it can be done. Acrobat has no APIs to run web app technologies.

[Thom Parker]

The answer is not really. There are three ways to write an application to control acrobat. A JavaScript automation script, a C++ plug-in, and a .Net or Applescript external app. You can read about them here:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Automating-Acrobat.cfm

and here
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/#t=Acro12_MasterBook%2FIntroductio...