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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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Using itextsharp (or any c# pdf library), how to open a PDF, replace some text, and save it again?

Using itextsharp (or any c# pdf library), i need to open a PDF, replace some placeholder text with actual values, and return it as a byte[]. Can someone suggest how to do this? I've had a look at the itext docs and can't figure out where to get…
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Acrobat Reader ActiveX Access Violation on form close

My Delphi application has a form that uses the Acrobat Reader ActiveX control for viewing pdfs. When I use the control's functions (LoadFile, gotoNextPage, gotoPreviousPage, gotoFirstPage, gotoLastPage), then close the form, I get the following…
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How to validate PDF form?

I have a writeable PDF form made in Acrobat Professional. I want to validate that a numerical entry is in a certain range [a,b]. If it is not, I want an alert to pop up with the message, "Please contact Larry at XXX-XXX-XXXX to get your form…
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Embed javascript to existing pdf

Hi I am embedding pdf file to my asp.net page like this The problem is that I have created my own toolbar for pdf, and want to zoom in, out document from my toolbar image…
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How can I retrieve the name of the printer chosen in Acrobat?

I want to get the name of the printer chosen in Acrobat PrintDialog using SendMessage Windows API. This is sample code. static string GetWindowText( hwnd_printDialog_in_Acrobat ) { int comboBoxCount = 0; int HWND_PRINTER_NAME = 1 ; …
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Opening multiple PDF documents using batch file

I am trying to open several PDF documents using a simple batch file: ECHO OFF CLS cd Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader Acrord32.exe C:\Users\BW1.pdf Acrord32.exe C:\Users\BW2.pdf Acrord32.exe C:\Users\BW3.pdf Acrord32.exe…
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Concatenate PDFs and preserve Extended Features in Acrobat Reader

We are using iText to automatically fill in form fields on a number of documents and then concatenating those documents into one resulting PDF. Adobe has introduced the Extend Features in Acrobat Reader option to allow users of Acrobat Reader to…
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How to diagnose cause, fix, or work around Adobe ActiveX / COM related error 0x80004005 progmatically?

I've built a C# .NET app that uses the Adobe ActiveX control to display a PDF. It relies on a couple DLLs that get shipped with the application. These DLLs interact with the locally installed Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on the…
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Adobe Acrobat Pro XI - Adding Javascript to a PDF

This may seem like a really novice question, but I have been tearing my hair out all day on this. I am running the trial version of Adobe Acrobat Professional XI I am looking to add simple JavaScript to a PDF file. The aim is to have a PDF file,…
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Open a pdf file programmatically at a named destination

I would like to open a PDF file at named destination using WinForms (C#). Here is my code: System.Diagnostics.Process myProcess = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "Acrobat.exe"; myProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = "/A…
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IE9 "Invalid calling object" when printing PDF in iframe

I'm opening an editable form PDF (opened via the acrobat plugin) in an iframe: There is a button that calls the following print function: function printContent(){ …
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How to cut-paste from PDF with non-ASCII encoding?

I have some PDFs and I am trying to cut and paste text they contain from Acrobat Reader into an HTML form. It seems that some of these files use (I suspect) unicode for text encoding, so when I try to paste into the HTML form (on firefox) I get the…
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Open Source Linux Acrobat Javascript Editor

Are there any OpenSource projects which will run in Linux for editing a PDF document, and specifically editing the Acrobat JavaScript within the PDF document?
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Extract complete hyphenated word from .pdf using acrobat.tlb in .NET VB or C#

I am parsing a .pdf using the acrobat.tlb library Hyphenated words are being split across new lines with the hyphens removed. e.g. ABC-123-XXX-987 Parses as: ABC 123 XXX 987 If I parse the text using iTextSharp it parses the whole string as…
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How to display a PDF document in a Microsoft Surface application?

I want to display a PDF document in my Microsoft Surface application. I did some searching and found a lot of possibilities, but all of the seem to have a little drawback if used in Microsoft Surface. This insteresting approach seems nice, but I…
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