Questions tagged [acrobat]

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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How to Prevent Caching When using PDF Streaming with Acrobar Reader 10.0 (HTTP1.0/HTTP1.1)

I was trying to find a way to prevent browsers from caching PDF that is being loaded using a streaming methods. FireFox and Chorme deals just fine with the following headers and doesn't cache any pdf file: Response.AddHeader("Pragma", "no-cache,…
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Hide pdf toolbar in firefox while displaying pdf using iframe

I am displaying a pdf file in browser using iframe. It is working fine but i want to disable/hide acrobat toolbar(below image). I tried the solution #toolbar=0&statusbar=0 it's working great on chrome but it's not working on Firefox. How can I…
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Command-line to execute Acrobat Action Wizard action from VBA

I've built an action in Action Wizard in Adobe Acrobat Pro 11 and named it say "myAcrobatAction". I want to use it automatically in Outlook using VBA code. Is there a way to call the user defined Acrobat action through the command-line or other way…
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Hosting IE 8 In WinForms and Opening a PDF

We have a form that hosts the WebBrowser control. That is the only control on the form. We pass the form the file path of a temporary PDF file and it does: WebBrowser1.Navigate(Me._PathToPdf) When the form is closing, it navigates away from the PDF…
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Error while trying to open Acrobat Reader in Debian Bullseye

I installed Acrobat reader on Debian 11/Bullseye following instructions from here sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386 Download the Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) package…
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Adobe Acrobat API in Python

System: Python 3.6 Windows 10 Goal: Use the Adobe Acrobat API to use the "Save As" feature to save a pdf to jpegs. Note: For my purposes I cannot use Wand or other packages. Resources: Adobe_API_Documentation Implementation_Example…
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How to find x,y location of a text in pdf

Is there any tool to find the X-Y location on a text content in a pdf file ?
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Using VBA how do I call up the Adobe Create PDF function

Sheets("Key Indicators").ExportAsFixedFormat Type:=xlTypePDF, Filename:=ArchivePath, Quality:=xlQualityStandard, IncludeDocProperties:=True, IgnorePrintAreas _ :=False, OpenAfterPublish:=False Currently this is what I have. I…
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GetJSObject fails when run on Microsoft Surface (Excel-VBA)

I have written a small utility in Excel-VBA that also interacts with Acrobat Javascript in a handful of separate .pdf files. The code has been tested extensively and runs exactly as intended on my desktop PC. However, I ultimately need to implement…
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Compare PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat via SDK

We are planning on implementing a solution for comparing different revisions of a PDF document in our .Net Windows Forms application. In Adobe Acrobat there is a nice feature for comparing two documents, but I have not been able to find any…
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Show or hide elements in PDF via Javascript

In PDF files it is quite easy to interact with form fields via the Javascript API. Is it possible to do this (specifically showing/hiding) to arbitrary elements on a page? Say, not just form fields, but text, graphical elements, embedded images...…
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Debugging PDF for error

I'm creating PDF files using PDFClown java library. Sometimes, when openning these files with Adobe Acrobat Reader I get the famous error message: "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the…
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Write text file using acrobat javascript

Trying to write to a text file w/ Adobe Acrobat Reader utilizing AcroJS. As a concept I got how to use trusted functions in Acrobat but when I tried to run following example to save (different problem then the original) the pdf form under a…
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Launching Acrobat Reader 10.0 from C#: how to minimize?

I am launching Reader 10.0 to send a PDF file to a printer from a C# program on a Win 7 system. Here's what I am doing now: startInfo.FileName = adobeReaderPath; string args = String.Format("/t \"{0}\" \"{1}\"", this.pdfFileName,…
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Hiding Adobe Toolbars, menubars, scrollbar, etc

I am using the "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Browser Control Type Library 1.0" control to view PDF's in my vb.net application. I want it to show just the PDF with no menus and toolbars. I have used the following…
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