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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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IAccessible (MSAA): Accessing Firefox/Chrome causing Adobe Accessibility.api calls

I noticed with Process Monitor that accessing Mozilla Firefox over the IAccessible (MSAA) Interface causes file accesses to an Adobe Reader file called "Accessibility.api". When I access Mozilla Firefox with Microsoft's Inspect.exe (using MSAA) I…
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Invoking Adobe Reader from within my Android application

I am writing an Android application to display pdf files on the device. And I need to use the current versioncode (35498) of the Adobe Reader to display the pdf files.I have with code to display list of files on the screen. Now I need to invoke the…
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How to use AcroTextExtractor.exe programmatically?

I'm trying to do batch text extraction from PDF files. Tried many libraries and Adobe Reader seems the most accurate text extractor for me. I noticed a file AcroTextExtractor.exe in the folder where Adobe Reader is installed. It sname seems…
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How can I stop Adobe Reader from asking "Save As" when saving a PDF form (i.e. allow just "Save")?

Does anyone know how to call Adobe Reader from the command line to open a pre-populated Adobe Form (with Extensions enabled) e.g MRBIGSORDER0001.PDF, allow the user to alter it and then do a save and exit? At present when the populated form is…
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Adobe Reader plugin interaction through Javascript

I'm displaying PDF file that are generated on-the-fly within a ASP page. The PDF generation (and download to the client) can take some time and I'd like to provide the user with some feedback (a loading message or something). AFAIK there's no way to…
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PADES-LTV Document timestamp verification error

I am signing a pdf document in PADES-LTV signature format with a Document timestamp signature. Usually, signed files are OK. Both signature and document timestamp signature is verified and everything is OK. However, sometimes the following result…
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Adobe X Enable Protected Mode at Startup - disable via code

Our application, write in Delphi, generates a series of reports, most of then in PDF format, that opens automatically when it is generated. Adobe X introduced a feature that is enabled by default "Enable Protected Mode at Startup". The report pdf…
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Diagnostics.Process doesn't open PDF file using adobe reader

I'm having a problem while trying to open a PDF file using Process.Start(). The program runs the process as a background process but no adobe reader window show up. A solution i found was to use chrome.exe, but my client want to open on…
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PDF JavaScript does not work in Adobe Reader DC but all other Readers

I am unable to get my pdf to work online with Adobe Reader DC. http://www.okeechobeecountytaxcollector.com/Documents/FeeCalculatorRev0909.pdf None of the buttons or functionality is working. (Like when you click motorvehicles, or Mobile homes or…
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PDF to tiff ImageMagick problem

I'm trying to convert pdfs to tiff images for following OCR. I use "-density 300x300 -depth 8" as parameters. The first problem is that from 500 KB pdf file i get 72 MB tiff file. The second problem is bad quality of resulting image causing OCR…
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C# Prevent Adobe Reader Window from coming up when trying to print a document

For reasons I can't get into right now, I need to prevent the Adobe Reader window from opening up when I try to print a document. The developer that was working on this before me has the following flags set, although I'm not really sure what they're…
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Printing quality to match adobe reader

I'm using C# and the PDFium library to print a PDF to a particular label printer. When I print this PDF via Chrome, Edge, or my application, the quality is questionable. When I print through Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader, the quality is exactly what…
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How to debug a corrupt pdf file?

im generating pdf files using a ruby library called "prawn". I have one particular file that seems to be considered "Corrupt" by adobe reader. It shows up fine in both preview and in adobe reader. It gives errors like: Sometimes I get: "Could not…
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Open pdf file in Adobe reader created in code-behind

How can I open a PDF document that I've created in code-behind in Adobe Reader?
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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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