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Adobe Reader is a free application for viewing, printing and filling PDF documents.

Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader) is the free version of of the Adobe Acrobat family by Adobe Systems to view, print and fill files in Portable Document Format (PDF)

For more information see the "Adobe Acrobat" article on Wikipedia.

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WebBrowser control doesn't display the Pdf file into the winform with Adobe. Why?

Here's my code to open the pdf file into the webBrowser control: private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { OpenFileDialog dlg = new OpenFileDialog(); dlg.Filter = "pdf files (*.pdf) |*.pdf;"; …
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Trouble printing to network printer via command line with Adobe Reader "protected mode" enabled

We are finding it nearly impossible to print to a network printer via Adobe Reader command line switches, with Adobe "protected mode" enabled. These troubles arise when attempting to use the command line arguments provided in the Adobe docs, to…
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Print pdf file from a virtual path

I am using this code to print myDocument.pdf file from drive D: which is working. Process proc = new Process(); proc.StartInfo.Verb = "PrinTo"; proc.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe"; …
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Detecting if Adobe Acrobat 9.3+ is already installed

I am using .NET Installer as a bootstrapper and I need to detect if Adobe Acrobat 9.3 or above is installed as a prerequisite. Currently I am using this registry to detect the installation: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat…
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Acrobat Reader DC Comment Frame Disabling

Is there any other way to disable comment frame that's on the right section? Whenever I open a PDF file to read, it is being opened comment sidebar. I couldn't find the solution in the preferences.
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Android: Reduce Pdf Size

How to achieve a compression level of PDF files in android comparable to that achieved by Adobe Reader, Quartz Pdf Context etc.? I tried with iText but the compression level is about 400% less than Adobe Reader and 200% less than Quartz Pdf…
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Adobe Reader unable to open downloaded file in IE6

I'm working on a web app that allows users to downloaded dynamically generated PDF files. This works fine in IE8 and Firefox but fails in IE6 with Adobe Reader giving the message "there was an error opening this document. this file cannot be found"…
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iText - PDF file displaying message at the top about fillable form

Here is what I did: 1. I have a template WORD file that can be used to fill an application for some stuff. Assigned pre-defined tags to fillable fields. 2. Converted that word file to PDF file using CenoPdf 3. Used iText to fill the fields in…
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Prevent users from opening PDFs in Reader

We use a LiveCycle form, but don't utilize Reader Extensions as all of our internal users should have Adobe Pro installed. However, there are a handful (often new employees or people working from new systems), that either don't have Pro installed…
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PDF form posting encoding problems

I tried to post characters such as "āēīū" from a form in a PDF viewer to a web server, but on the server side those characters look like this: "????". What can I do to pass these characters as UTF-8?
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change background color and save pdf with new bg color

I know how to change background color in adobe reader and other software. Adding on to that, I want to know how to save that new background color for use, and that pdf file on a tablet or any other pdf reader with the same background color.
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Adobe reader plugin html transparent overlay

Hi Im trying to overlay a pdf, rendered using adobe-reader plugin for IE11, with a div. Here is a jsfiddle describing my problem. The div is positioned behind the embedded pdf for some reason. Is there a solution to this problem? The problem occours…
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PHP byte serving PDF with fast web view

I have a large PDF file, and host in PHP server. The PDF is "fast web view" enabled. I want user see the page 1 asap the PDF is start loading. Refer to the solution from : http://www.coneural.org/florian/papers/04_byteserving.php I refer to the…
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How to make a plugin for Adobe reader in Windows?

I just want to know how to make a plugin for Adobe reader and how does it works, I have Stuided the SDK Documenty on Adobe plugin, but even i can understand how to add a button in to adobe reader using c++ and when clicked I want to run a Function…
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(Manually created Simple PDF using PDF Reference-1.7 )Adobe Reader XI asking to save when closing the PDF?

I have generated a PDF Using the following PDF code its working fine but when i am trying to close ,its asking me to save.I have analyzed my PDF code to detect the problem. I have identified there is a problem in startxref offset size and xref…
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