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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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Automating PDF generation

What would be a solid tool to use for generating PDF reports? Particularly, we are interested in creating interactive PDFs that have video, like the example found here. Right now we are using Python and reportlab to generate PDFs, but have not…
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confirmation dialog (alert) after form submit

I was wondering if there is any way to notify a user in adobe reader that a pdf form has been submitted to the server? I am submitting a normal http/html form to a php script no big deal, straight forward, but there seems to be a big "black hole" in…
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calling a.NET web service from inside a pdf file

I'm working on a mini project in which I need to insert 'the number of parts in stock' dynamically and display it on the pdf page(probably in a control??) I have a web service i can call to get the number of parts in stock. Is there a way that,…
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PDFs written by PyPDF2 showing changes when opened in Acrobat

I'm using Python and PyPDF2 to generate a set of PDFs based on a template with form fields. The PDFs are created and all of the fields are filled correctly, but when I open the PDFs in Adobe Acrobat they show changes made to the file (i.e., the…
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XDP File using remote PDF

In one of our applications, we have a script dump data from a database into a well-formed XDP file, which the user can download. The XDP contains a reference to a PDF on the same server via the tag. The idea is the user can dump the data, get…
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Print PDF as image from command line?

Is it possible to print a PDF as image using Acrobat Reader through command line options? Or this feature is only available through the GUI of Acrobat?
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Setting a field based on a ComboBox selection

I'm not a newb to JavaScript but this is my first foray into Acrobat Scripting. What I'm trying to do is change a text field based on the value selected in a comboBox. Since I have many different comboboxes with the same set of options, and many…
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iText's Alt-Text adding sample code not working for PDFs tagged using Acrobat

I'm working on a PDF accessibility assignment, which is to add alternative text in a tagged PDF. I got the sample code for the same at: Add alternative text for an image in tagged pdf (PDF/UA) using iText Very much excited about that my task is…
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Compressing JPG page to PDF with various compressions/settings

I would like to take a single page jpg, and experiment with various pdf compression settings and other settings (to analyse resultant pdf size and quality) - can anyone point me towards decent tools to do this, and any useful docs/guides?
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mpdf generated files always ask to save changes before closing in acrobat

I am using mPDF to allow users to download a result from a website in PDF. The PDF files open fine in adobe acrobat, but when closing acrobat it will always ask "Do you want to save changes to /filename.pdf/ before closing?". Nothing can be done or…
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Acrobat Reader 2017 reference: MISSING: Adobe Acrobat XX.X Type Library

I am able to run the following code where I have Acrobat Reader 2017 installed as well as Adobe Acrobat XI Pro and Distiller XI. I have another computer without XI Pro or Distiller. First issue when I open my Excel sheet I get Compile Error in…
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How to convert from PDF to XPS?

I use the following method to print a XPS file with adobe acrobat: private void GenerateXPS(String filename) { Process proc = new Process(); proc.StartInfo.FileName = "AcroRd32.exe"; …
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Acrobat SDK C# tutorial

Could you help me to start developing an pdf viewer,reader with aid of Acrobat SDK. If you can give me a clear guidance(tutorial). thank you yohan
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Verifying certificate of signed and secured PDF in iText PDF Java

I secured a PDF using Adobe Acrobat and then signed it, but when I try to verify the signature using iText, it gives an error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: can't decode PKCS7SignedData object at…
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Using Adobe Acrobat 9 in command line to covert from pdf to png using export function

I am trying to use the command line to convert a pdf to png using the export function of adobe acrobat 9. Anyone know how to do this? A program I am writing in Java will need to run this command. Thanks for the help.
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