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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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Can somebody confirm that adobe reader works with custom content provider

I have implemented a custom content provider serving pdf documents as ParcelFileDescriptor. Files are stored in the local storage marked as PRIVATE. Based on an URI the documents are then handed over to the selected pdf application. This works for…
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Error in PDF root object

This PDF root object will get Adobe Reader to fail. Other PDF readers like Foxit, Nuance, Evince, SumatraPDF will open the PDF file without problems. The problem is /Dests which reguires an indirect object (PDF reference). Deleting the /Dests << >>…
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E_ACCESSDENIED on CoCreateInstance, where it used to work

I have some code that used to work, but recently stopped. It's in an Adobe Reader Plugin, and the latest Reader version has a "Protected Mode" which causes my problem. My plugin can load some of my normal dlls, which load…
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Headless Chrome PDF printing has poor quality in large documents

I'm using Headless Chrome to print out PDF files by using the printToPDF CDP method. If the document has a large number of pages, then if I print the PDF file actually out, or print out to another PDF file, then the quality of pages get worse, as…
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Check if PDF has been loaded

I am trying to load a PDF within an iframe and have to execute few events only when PDF has been loaded. (Note: By PDF getting loaded, I mean PDF contents are visible on screen not the initializing/loading progress bar of Adobe reader). I am using…
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Using Javascript in Adobe Reader

I am currently using the following script for a few documents: var pp = this.getPrintParams(); pp.interactive = pp.constants.interactionLevel.automatic; this.print(pp); How do I add another command, say document.close() so that it reads the print…
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Check if adobe reader is installed on client machine

Currently I am working on a web page which will tell user about certain configurations on client machine. Out of this there is also requirement of detecting if Adobe Reader is installed on client machine or not. I am using ASP.NET/C#. I have looked…
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unable to open a pdf file at specific page in Adobe Reader 11 using C# code

The below lines of code are used to open a PDF file at a particular page in C#. the code works absolutely fine for all the adobe version other than the latest, which is 11. System.Diagnostics.Process myProcess = new…
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Control Adobe Reader plugin

is there any way to control the adobe reader pdf plugin on a website better than simply passing those "open parameters" that I cannot influence anymore once the document is loaded? Thanks! Leo
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TeXnicCenter - open as PDF

I have just spent some time installing TeXnicCenter and tried to configure it properly. I'm almost there now! The only issue I have is that every time I compile the document I'm working on as a PDF document, the document doesn't open directly in…
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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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how to detect Adobe Acrobat Reader installation in computer (not just browser) during Setup?

im creating a VS setup installer for my C# project. I need the client's machine to first install Adobe Acrobat Reader X before proceeding to the actual installation. How do i do this? Thanks!
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Security Method is No Security but Page Extraction and Document Assembly is not Allowed

I have a very strange problem and I am not sure where the issue is. I am creating a PDF and not setting any security restrictions or a password. When I open the PDF in Adobe Reader DC and get the properties,it does show the Security Method as No…
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PDF shows signature in Foxit Reader but not Adobe Reader

Why does this PDF show a signature in Foxit Reader but not Adobe Reader? Here is the code from the Syncfusion PDF library used to generate it (see also documentation about signing an existing document): var signature = new…
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Adobe Reader process fails when starting second instance

In our C# WinForms application, we generate PDF files and launch Adobe Reader (or whatever the default system .pdf handler is) via the Process class. Since our PDF files can be large (approx 200K), we handle the Exited event to then clean up the…
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