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Adobe Acrobat is a family of applications developed by Adobe in order to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

All members of the family, except Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader), are proprietary commercial software, while the latter is available as freeware and can be downloaded from Adobe's web site. Adobe Reader enables users to view and print PDF files but has negligible PDF creation capabilities.

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Is it possible to have a PDF file open at a predefined magnification in Adobe Reader?

We have a downloadable PDF file which looks great at 72% magnification in Adobe Reader and not so good at 101%. When downloaded and opened in the reader, its default magnification is 101%. Is there a way to define the default magnification in the…
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PDF Spec vs Acrobat creation (QuadPoints)

I've created some annotations (Underline, Highlight, Strikeout, Squiggly) in Acrobat and am digging out the QuadPoints array to render with. The pdf spec PDF 32000-1:2008 says they are in counter clockwise order, and x1,y1 -> x2,y2 specifies the…
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Create Add-in for Acrobat Reader - PDF

Can i create an Add-in for Acrobat Reader? (something like Office Add-ins in visual studio) for example, i open a pdf file with Acrobat Reader, i want to add my custom button in the Reader in order to perform a specific action. Is it doable? Is it…
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How to export pdf form fields to xml automatically

I have a pdf file including form fields and need to export the data into a xml file AUTOMATICALLY. Here is a screen of a sample form I created for testing: Note: It works great exporting it MANUALLY using Acrobat Professional by clicking on Tools >…
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how to globally replace font in a PDF

Is it possible, using Adobe Acrobat or another tool, to globally replace a font in a PDF? How can I do this?
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"Not implemented" Exception when using pywin32 to control Adobe Acrobat

I have written a script in python using pywin32 to save pdf files to text that up until recently was working fine. I use similar methods in Excel. The code is below: def __pdf2Txt(self, pdf, fileformat="com.adobe.acrobat.accesstext"): …
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DDE control TeXnicCenter

I use TeXnicCenter for LaTeX and would like to have the DDE controls working to easily view the pdf versions. Acrobat X seems to have changed the servername and this is breaking things. I tried "AcroViewR10" or "acroviewR10" and other combination,…
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Submit pdf form fields to a HTTP POST request

I've made a pdf form in Adobe Acrobat. Now I want to make a button that submits the form to a HTTP POST request. I have searched for about 4 hours, but I have not found an example to do this. Here I read that it is possible to send the pdf form…
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How do I change the highlighter color in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC permanently?

I downloaded the latest version of Acrobat Reader and cannot figure out how to permanently change the highlighter color for all future uses. In the version I have on another computer, I can simply right click on the highlighter icon and select the…
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VB6 app printing Crystal Report to Adobe Distiller PDF - how to set PDF filename?

I've got a legacy app that I'm maintaining. It's a VB6 app that calls a Crystal Report (Crystal 8 it looks like) and then prints programmatically to the default printer, which is set up as Acrobat Distiller (v5.0). When it prints to PDF, it's…
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How to write a text file in Acrobat Javascript

I am using acrobat XI I have tried output a text file like this var cMyC = "abc"; var doc = this.createDataObject({cName: "test.txt", cValue: cMyC}); this.exportDataObject({cName: "test.txt", nLaunch:0}); This is working , but I would like to…
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How to compare two pdf files through command line

Does anyone know how to compare two pdf files using adobe acrobat through command line. I want to do this via command line because we want to compare hundreds of file every day through some automated windows tasks. Any kind of help will be greatly.…
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How can I convert time to decimal number in JavaScript?

I'm too lazy to fill out my time sheet at work by the end at the end of every month, so I've started adding some functions to our PDF form. Acrobat Pro offers to make advanced calculations using JavaScript, but I'm stuck with this problem. I have…
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Copy field values in Acrobat using Javascript

How can I copy the form field values from one set of fields to another using javascript. The idea here is to have a 'use shipping/billing address' type of button that copies the user information from one block of fields to another identical set of…
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PDF: How can I override/fix searchable text in a scanned image + OCR file?

I'm trying to create an index on a PDF file that I scanned as images from an old original manuscript, then put through character recognition in Adobe Acrobat Pro. The problem is some of the words were spaced funny so the OCR ended up with flaws. I…
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