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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Is it possible to add javascript to images in a pdf?

I know that the vast majority of reasons for using pdfs on a website involve allowing users to print documents, but one of our clients has requested that we create a PDF for online viewing, that would have clickable images which open a…
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PDF Display Errors with wkhtmltopdf / tables / acrobat-reader

I generated a PDF file using wkhtmltopdf from a html page. The html page uses tables which have 1 pixel borders. If I open the PDF with Acrobat or Foxit they randomly miss to draw vertical borders, but they appear if I zoom in. So I guess it's some…
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How to create non-exclusive checkboxes with the same name in an Acrobat/PDF form

In Acrobat Professional, I create multiple checkboxes and assign the same name to each checkbox, but a different export value. With this, the checkboxes seem to behave like radio buttons: Acrobat only lets me check one of them. If the first is…
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How can I create a plugin that adds a stamp annotation with a custom icon using Adobe Acrobat SDK (C++)?

I'm currently making a plugin for Adobe Acrobat via the Acrobat SDK C++ tool. This plugin needs to be a Stamp annotation that stamps a custom icon (either .ico, .jpg, or .png file) rather than the default Draft or Approved stamps. I've followed the…
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PDF's converted to .ashx in sitecore failing to open using IE

As with all media files in Sitecore the extension is converted to .ashx which is proving to be a problem for the visitors to my site when using IE and acrobat reader. Basically the user clicks the download link, the current page loads indicating…
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Editing javascript in a pdf with .net

Is it possible to edit the javascript of a pdf document with .net? I've looked at the Acrobat SDK, but without much luck. It looks like you can retrieve values from forms etc. but not edit the document. Am I way off track? Is this even…
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Dynamic PDF and Accessible via ASP.net

I have been doing dynamic PDF creation via ASP.net for some time -- in the form of HTML to PDF conversion. It works well for us, but we have accessibility requirements from the State to make everything is accessible. For static PDFs, we simply…
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Plugins to set Bookmarks with Inherit Zoom in Acrobat (Mac)?

At work, we are required to set "Inherit Zoom" on all bookmarks and links within PDF files (using Adobe Acrobat). I have been surprised at how difficult it is to set this across multiple bookmarks. I.e., the only native way I have found to do this…
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Embed JavaScript in PDF with wkhtmltopdf

Is it possible to embed JavaScript code in PDFs generated with wkhtmltopdf?
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How can I replace Image in PDF Programmatically (using command line ideally)

I'm looking for a method to replace an image in an existing PDF file (setup as a template). In a perfect world I could just run a command (linux or windows will work, I'm not picky) at the command line, however, if need be, I could also implement…
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Convert PDF to Word

I have a folder containing some .doc,.docx documents. I am able to convert these to *.pdf using powershell $wdDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat( ..... ) I have another folder having*.pdf documents. I want to convert *.PDF to .doc/.docx using powershell…
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Converting PDF pages to TIF files

I need to convert PDF pages to TIF files from within my app (or using a console app we shell out to...) I've tried some 3rd party tools/apps, but just to load one of my pages, they can take literally an order of magnitude or more than Acrobat Reader…
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Cannot use Acrobat XI JSObject from PowerShell

I have Acrobat XI Pro installed on my machine. I'm trying to write PowerShell code that will extract pages from PDF documents using techniques such as the ones at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.text.pdf/DNtcbUgjas4 and Convert pdf to…
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Possible to edit PDF without embedded font installed?

I have a PDF and need to edit its text. It has an embedded font and I'm not able to find the font to install. Is it possible to edit the text and maintain its embedded font when I don't have the font installed? I'm editing with Acrobat X and its…
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Solr PDF search: "Go to page" function

We're building a PDF search machine with Solr and Lucene where users can search for text in PDFs. The database only contains PDFs. In the search results page ("/browse") we want to append the PDF file with #page=X where X is the page the text was…
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