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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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Searching for unicode surrogates in Acrobat Pro using javascript

I wanted to search for Japanese text using the Acrobat Javascript API (search.query). Everything works fine except for the code range 0xD800~0xDFFF (Unicode surrogate code points). I have tried copy and pasting the text I want to search for into my…
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Verifying digital signatures on Mac Adobe Reader

I'm attempting to sign PDFs with an SSL certificate issued from Go Daddy. These signatures show up as valid in the Windows Reader as long as you check the "Validating Signatures" check box under Edit->Preferences...->Security->Advanced…
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how to comunicate between Matlab And power point or Matlab and acrobat reader

I want to send a variable from Matlab to PowerPoint or AcrobatReader, then depend on the value of this variable, PowerPoint goes to next or previous slide or exit, or zoom in or zoom out in acrobatreader. is it possible? it should be because…
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Adobe Acrobat intercepting every URL from call to BasicService.showDocument() in java

Our In-House Java application launches various http URLs at various times, including URLs to web-pages, MS Word documents, MS Excel documents, PDF files etc. On over 50+ machines the URL launching works fine and the correct application opens the…
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Write cyrillic chars into PDF form fields with PDFBox

I am using pdfbox 2.0.5 to fill out form fields of a PDF document using this code: doc = PDDocument.load(inputStream); PDDocumentCatalog catalog = doc.getDocumentCatalog(); PDAcroForm form = catalog.getAcroForm(); for…
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adobe acrobat dc document level javascript

Of course as I search the forums, search google search results all of the answers are for a previous version of adobe acrobat before they decided to change everything. I can not find where I can insert document level javascript in Adobe Acrobat Pro…
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Fill Acrobat Form date field with today's date only if field is empty

The goal is for an Acrobat form to fill a date field ("MeetingDate") with Today's date when the user opens it. If the user saves the form as is and opens it a few days later, the old date should still be there, not replaced by the current date. If…
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Extract PDF Form Data Using JavaScript and write to CSV File

I have been given a PDF file with a form. The form is not formatted as a table. My requirement is to extract the form field values, and write them to a CSV file which can be imported into Excel. I have tried using the automated "Merge data files…
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Acrobat DC - Change application background color? (GUI too bright)

I'm trying to change (through Hex Editors, Resource Hackers, etc.) the background color of Adobe Acrobat DC, the latest version of Adobe Acrobat. This version makes the background color much lighter. It's too bright. It hurts my eyes to use, and is…
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How to search a PDF in Acrobat Reader AND jump to a certain page via parameter?

We are using lucene within a web application to search in a great number of PDF documents. The workflow is like this: A user enters a search term A list of search results is presented to the user. Each search result represents one PDF document and…
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Javascript Detect if Adobe Reader is installed

We have some PDF forms that don't display correctly in non-Adobe PDF readers (i.e. WebKit's built-in PDF reader does not properly display some proprietary Adobe things). We want to detect when users don't have Adobe's PDF Reader installed and give…
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IsNumeric function returning true for an empty cell

I run a macro that copies tables from a PDF file and saves them on Excel. some of the tables contain empty cells and in my analysis I need to know the number of cells that are empty. I have a function that iterates through each column to check if…
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iText embedded ttf font not visible in Adobe Reader

I'm stamping an existing PDF file with extra information using the iText library. The extra information is text that should be rendered in a custom TTF font. Problem is that the text is not visible in the Adobe Reader only. Other PDF viewers, such…
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How to disable or hide acrobat reader bookmarks panel in winform?

I'm showing PDF documents in my application using Acrobat ActiveX. I want to know is it possible to disable or hide Bookmarks(and Pages,Search,Comments,Attachments in left of panel) on PDF adobe reader when showing pdf?
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How do I 'Save a Copy' rather than 'Save As' in Acrobat Javascript?

I have just learned about doing Javascript in Acrobat and I've run into an issue. I need to 'Save a Copy' of a ton of files to get them out of 'Extend Features in Adobe Reader ' mode. I'm trying to figure out how in JS, so I can batch through all…
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