Questions tagged [adobe-reader]

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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How to add a new context menu in Adobe Reader(PDF) using C#

I'm developing an application where i need to create a new context menu item in pdf viewer (Adobe Reader). Can anyone please let me know how to create it using C#? Thanks in advance.
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Read MainWindowHandle For Process

i tried to read MainWindowHanlde For Acrobat Reader 10 Process so i can SetParent API i tried this private Process pDocked; private IntPtr hWndDocked; pDocked = Process.Start(path, PDFPath); while (hWndDocked == IntPtr.Zero) { …
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How to name a 'group' check box in Adobe Reader when wanting to fill form by FDF / XFDF

I've managed to populate ordinary pdf text fields via an fdf file and via an xfdf file. My problem is that I need to check some checkboxes. I have read this article entitled 'FDF - how to check a checkbox?' but I still can't get mine to work. One of…
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How to inject a DLL into Adobe Reader X

I need to inject a DLL into Adobe Reader X that reads the events sent to the scrollbar (even if it is hidden). I need to do this to be able to find out what page of the document i am on. I have tried hooking a dll using the win32 hooking API, i give…
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Acrobat javascript API in iOS

Is there any way to use Adobe Acrobat Javascript APIS in iOS platform for usage within iPhone and iPad apps ? Thanks
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How can i detect if client browser have adobe reader plugin installed

How can i check with php or js, if client browser for adobe reader plugin is installed?
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Enable Adobe Reader in QWebEngineView

I would like to know how to enable Adobe Reader in QWebEngineView with PyQt5. I've already created this piece of code without any success : import sys from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets, QtWebEngineWidgets app =…
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File format for generating dynamic reports in applications

We generate dynamic reports in all of our business web applications written for .Net and J2EE. On the server side we use ActiveReports.Net and JasperReports to generate the reports. We then export them to PDF to send down to the browser. Our…
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Show Searched text of a pdf along with page number

I was looking for a solution where i have a PDF file and i want to search a particular text in that file and the result of that searched text should come in a list format along with its page number. I looked for online solution but was unable to…
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Shortcut command for highlighting text in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?

Is there a shortcut command for highlighting text (as opposed to right-click, highlight) in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?
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Adobe Reader embedded in WinForms app hangs on close

(This appears to be caused by a recent update to Adobe Reader.) We have a WinForms app that embeds an Adobe Reader through a WebBrowser control (i.e., not by referencing the ActiveX DLL directly). When closing the last instance of that control, the…
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represents a character as a utf-16 code unit

StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(); builder.Append(" \(Nested \(parentheses\) dont need a backslash.\) \(But a single \\(parenthe)"); for(int i=0;i
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Adobe Reader plugin eating certain keydown events only in Firefox 3.6

I seem to have exactly the same problem as this person: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/618752 He also has example code that purports to demonstrate the problem. Basically, I have a webpage consisting of 2 frames: in the right hand frame, a PDF,…
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iTextSharp - Consistent text field appearance AND no save dialog in Reader XI; can I achieve both at once?

I've been generating PDF forms using iTextSharp for quite a while now, and it's been working fine. However, recently my organization upgraded to Adobe Reader XI; since then, the generated PDFs have started displaying a "Do you want to save changes"…
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How can one open Adobe Reader with VBScript?

I want to programmatically fill in some fields in a form in PDF format. I tried this code: Set objAdobe = CreateObject("AcrobatReader.Application") objAdobe.Visible = True I get the "ActiceX component can't create object" error.
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