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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 Node.js to process Adobe Acrobat javascript calls

Is it possible to call the Adobe Acrobat Javascript functionality in a node.js application to convert a PDF to an EPS? http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript In the Adobe JavaScript API Reference there is a document object…
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matplotlib generated PDF cannot be viewed in acrobat reader

I am plotting data with matplotlib including LaTeX fonts. The pdf created can be displayed by evince, inkscape, GIMP but not by acroread resp. adobe reader. The code prototype works with a lot of figures and only a few plots have this problem.…
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Win32com Save PDF to XML with Acrobat Pro X > com_error "-2147467263, 'Not implemented'"

Python 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 09:01:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Windows XP SP3 Python 2.7 pywin32-218 Adobe Acrobat X 10.0.0 I want to use Python to automate Acrobat Pro to export a PDF to XML. I already tried it manually using…
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Resize many PDFs

I have many (around 1000) multiple-page PDFs for a program I am writing. The problem is that many of them are inconsistent about page size, even within the same document at times. Does anyone know of a way I could programmatically go through the…
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How to process values entered into an interactive PDF form on the server?

A client is asking how to create an interactive PDF form with functionality that allows the values entered into the form to be processed on the server. From what I've read, the best way to do this is to program the submission by embedding…
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Starting serverside print job via PHP

This is most likely not an easy one but here is the situation: I have written a C# command line application which: creates a PDF using ITextSharp writes it to disk uses Acrord32.exe (this is Acrobat Reader) via System.Diagnostics.Process in order…
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File Does Not Begin With '%PDF-'

I had a peculiar problem yesterday. A customer put one of my Delphi apps on some Toshiba laptops, and all was fine until it was time to generate some Acrobat files as a Rave 7 report, which produced the subject error. The laptops had Acrobat 7…
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Embed PDF in HTML

I need to embed a PDF document inside an HTML page. The PDF is dynamically generated, i.e., not a static file, but rather a byte-array generated using a PDF toolkit (in my case, "Apache PDFBox"). I have a Java Web app. From what I understand, there…
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Adding Acrobat JavaScript code to pdf export

I need to add startup Acrobat JavaScript code to pdf file while exporting to pdf (from ods or odt) by OpenOffice uno API (in C#). The code should by called when PDF is being opened or just has been opened. I already know other solutions to the…
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Printing PDF's using Python,win32api, and Acrobat Reader 9

I have reports that I am sending to a system that requires the reports be in a readable PDF format. I tried all of the free libraries and applications and the only one that I found worked was Adobe's acrobat family. I wrote a quick script in…
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How to set a default zoom of 100% using iTextSharp 4.0.2?

I want the PDF reader (Adobe Reader) to open the PDF file with zoom automatically set to 100%. Thanks!
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Is there a way to read table data (parse) from pdf file using Adobe reader Type library

I am working on C#.net project. I have a pdf file which contains some table structure data. I have google a lot how even not able to get the answer about how to read the table data from pdf file in C# code. I tried iTextSharp, PdfBOX, pdfSharp etc.…
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Programmatic validation + submit in an Acrobat PDF form

Upon pressing the "submit" button of my PDF form, I'd like to do something (set a field to readonly) conditionally on the success of the form validation and submission processes: if (form.isValid()) { submitForm(...); if…
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What is the UI technology used by DocuSign and EchoSign that allows a PDF to be edited, filled and signed online?

I'd like to get some direction on how services like DocuSign, EchoSign, FillAnyPDF etc. are delivering the UI for creating fillable PDFs, editing them and embedding signatures (both font and gesture capture) from an online interface. As an example,…
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Acrobat SDK: How to get events and write event handlers in c#

I am trying out to get events from a pdf doc and handle it in my c# code with the samples that come with Acrobat-SDK. I am yet to understand how I can do it. I am yet to discover the class that provides me the events. All the classes currently…
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