Hi,
The simplest possible way is to build an acrobat plugin with CLR support and use Winforms, try using the below mentioned configuration for your VC++ project.
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Re: How do I open a new window in Adobe Acrobat using the plugin sdk
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Re: Please clarify license terms for the PDF test suites
Thanks for the clarification, although I must admit to being a little disappointed. We would like to be able to take an archival copy in case something happens to the live site, and ideally would like to be able to re-package it with additional metadata for tool testing and long-term preservation purposes.
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Re: Please clarify license terms for the PDF test suites
As long as its for internal use – be our guest!
We just do not want you redistributing them on your site, with your product, etc.
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Re: Please clarify license terms for the PDF test suites
Oh and if you or anyone else needs other types of files that I haven't had a chance to put up there yet – please let me know!
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Re: Please clarify license terms for the PDF test suites
We don't have a product - I am one staff member from a number of international 'memory institutions' (national libraries, archives, etc.) that all work together to understand and document digital formats for long-term preservation purposes. As we pool knowledge across organizations, limiting documents to 'internal use' is problematic.
Of course, we can share metadata about your documents, and refer to them by URL, but that gets tricky when we want to talk about details. Can we blog about a specific fragment of one of those documents? Can we include a screen shot? Where is the line? Simple licensing helps make this clear.
Also, frankly, we are playing a very long game and have to plan for the possibility that that website, and even Adobe itself, might not exist one day. This means we are not keen to become dependent upon test suites that cannot be kept safe by being cloned across our organizations.
EDIT: Hm, sorry if that came across as ungrateful. Thanks for offering to provide more examples, and of course, it's great to have these documents available (internal use is better than no use!). I just wanted to make it clear there are other use cases that these conditions can't cover.
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Re: Please clarify license terms for the PDF test suites
Understood. Will work with our legal team to see what we can do.
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How to add text to a pdf file using Access VBA??
I'm down on my hands and knees, begging. I have 300 files that I want to put a variable string at the top of the first page (centered, or at the right hand side). I am using Acrobat X and Microsoft Access 2010 and I do have the SDK and have spend over 10 hours so far searching it and the internet in general, for help and still am coming up empty handed.
I can do the looping and passing variables with my eyes closed, but I cannot get the syntax for the actual opening of the pdf and inserting the string.
I was trying to modify code I found yesterday that is supposed to add an annotation, but I don't want an annotation, I just want a string of text at the top of page 1. For now, all I want is to be successful at doing ONE file. Can someone please give me a concrete example of the code I need to use? Like I said, I'm in begging mode 
Public Sub AddText()
Dim pdDoc As Acrobat.AcroPDDoc
Dim page As Acrobat.AcroPDPage
Dim annot As Acrobat.AcroPDAnnot
Dim jso As Object
Dim strPath As String
Dim intpoint(1) As Integer
Dim intpopupRect(3) As Integer
Dim props As Object
Set pdDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
pdDoc.Open ("c:\Test\Test.pdf")
Set page = pdDoc.AcquirePage(0)
'Set annot = page.AddAnnot(0)
intpoint(0) = 0
intpoint(1) = page.GetSize.y
intpopupRect(0) = 0
intpopupRect(1) = page.GetSize.y - 100
intpopupRect(2) = 200
intpopupRect(3) = page.GetSize.y
annot.SetColor (vbRed)
annot.SetContents "JCPC - 22 - 2011050000001"
pdDoc.Save 1, "c:\Test\Test.pdf"
pdDoc.Close
Set pdDoc = Nothing
MsgBox "Done"
End Sub
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Re: How to add text to a pdf file using Access VBA??
You should look at the JSObject and how to call JavaScript methods from VB(A). Then look at the addWatermark method.
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Re: How to add text to a pdf file using Access VBA??
I've looked at that stuff until I'm blue in the face, and still don't get it.
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Re: How to add text to a pdf file using Access VBA??
I have to say 10 hours is not enough to scratch he surface of the SDK.
We tend not to give examples - well I don't. Instead I help people understand the documents and write their own code.
So, what is it about the addWatermark method which is stopping you from getting further? How can we help with that.
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Re: How to add text to a pdf file using Access VBA??
I can't figure out how to call it.
Public Sub AddText()
Dim pdApp As Acrobat.AcroApp
Dim pdDoc As Acrobat.AcroPDDoc
Dim pdPage As Acrobat.AcroPDPage
Dim jso As Object
Dim doc As Variant
Set pdApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set pdDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
pdDoc.Open ("c:\Test\Test.pdf")
page = pdDoc.AcquirePage(o)
Set jso = pdDoc.GetJSObject
*****************What do you do after you get the JSObject?
doc = jso.pdApp.activeDocs
pdDoc.Save 1, "c:\Test\Test.pdf"
pdDoc.Close
Set pdDoc = Nothing
MsgBox "Done"
End Sub
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Re: Digital Signature Not Showing Up
Test Screen Name, what is the syntax for that?
Any help on the code to use?
Thanks,
Joani
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Re: How to add text to a pdf file using Access VBA??
Jso.addWatermarkFromText( - parameters as defined in the JS docs - )
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Re: How to add text to a pdf file using Access VBA??
A while ago I wrote a blog post about how to use the JSObject from VBA:
http://khkonsulting.com/2009/03/acrobat-javascript-and-vb-walk-into-a- bar/
This will not address your exact problem, but you should find enough
information about how to get started.
Karl Heinz Kremer
PDF Acrobatics Without a Net
PDF Software Development, Training and More...
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:45 PM, I Love Mustangs
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Re: How to add text to a pdf file using Access VBA??
Just did that and I'm getting an error message, "Object variable or With block variable not set."
Public Sub AddText()
Dim pdApp As Acrobat.AcroApp
Dim pdDoc As Acrobat.AcroPDDoc
Dim pdPage As Acrobat.AcroPDPage
Dim jso As Object
Dim doc As Variant
Dim oColor As Object
Set pdApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set pdDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
pdDoc.Open ("c:\Test\Test.pdf")
Set jso = pdDoc.GetJSObject
Call jso.addWatermarkFromText("WTF", 0, "Helvetica", 16, , 0, 0, True, True, True, 0, 0, 100, 100, False, 1, False, , , 1)
pdDoc.Save 1, "c:\Test\Test.pdf"
pdDoc.Close
Set pdDoc = Nothing
MsgBox "Done"
End Sub
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Re: Digital Signature Not Showing Up
NO, YOU write the code. I've described what it has to do.
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Re: How do I open a new window in Adobe Acrobat using the plugin sdk
Thank you kdj_banglore,
One question. I setup the project as you explain in the screen shots and I get this error when I build:
error D8016: '/ZI' and '/clr' command-line options are incompatible
Any ideas. Have you gotten this to work for you? I basically grabed the BasicPlugin sample project and made the changes you showed and a rebuild is giving me the error above.
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Need Help Adding Parameters to addWatermarkFromText using VBA
After three days of banging my head on a wall, I got this to work:
Public Sub AddText()
Dim pdApp As Acrobat.AcroApp
Dim pdDoc As Acrobat.AcroPDDoc
Dim jso As Object
Set pdDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
pdDoc.Open ("c:\Test\Test.pdf")
Set jso = pdDoc.GetJSObject
jso.addWatermarkFromText ("Test")
pdDoc.Save 1, "c:\Test\Test.pdf"
pdDoc.Close
Set pdDoc = Nothing
MsgBox "Done"
End Sub
However, every time I try to add parameters to jso.addWatermarkFromText I get an error message - something is wrong with my syntax I suppose but i have tried every example I could find and nothing is working for me. Please help - all of the default parameters are find, just need the text to be at the top of the page, not the center.
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Re: Need Help Adding Parameters to addWatermarkFromText using VBA
Now I'm trying the JSScript method and still stuck. Not sure how to properly reference the app to use the app.constants.align.top parameter, etc.
Public Sub AddText()
Dim App As Acrobat.AcroApp
Dim pdDoc As Acrobat.AcroPDDoc
Dim jso As Object
Dim o As New ScriptControl
o.Language = "JScript"
Set App = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set pdDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
pdDoc.Open ("c:\Test\Test.pdf")
With o
.ExecuteStatement "this.addWatermarkFromText({cText: 'Watermark Text',nTextAlign: App.constants.align.right,nHorizAlign: App.constants.align.right,nVertAlign: App.constants.align.top,nHorizValue: 0.4, nVertValue: 0});"
End With
pdDoc.Save 1, "c:\Test\Test.pdf"
pdDoc.Close
Set pdDoc = Nothing
MsgBox "Done"
End Sub
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Re: Need Help Adding Parameters to addWatermarkFromText using VBA
Where did you get the impression that you can execute JavaScript in Acrobat
using this method? You really (let me repeat that REALLY) have to read the
SDK documentation. There no no way around that. Anything that is not
described in the documentation will not work. There is only one way to
execute JavaScript using the IAC API, and that is using this call:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/11/Acrobat11_HTMLHelp/IAC_API_Fo rmsIntro.108.45.html
However, in this case there is no need to use the executeThisJavaScript
function, you can use the JSO to add your watermark. Everything you need is
in the documentation, and as I mentioned before, there is no way around
reading and understanding the docs. You cannot just google your way through
a complex problem and try to piece together a solution based on bits and
pieces you find online. Why do I know this? Because oftentimes I get called
in after somebody tries that approach to save some money. I then get to
clean up the mess they made, and then it's not going to be cheap... And
this is one of the reasons why people are reluctant to provide code samples
in this forum.
Using a complex API as the Acrobat SDK requires you to climb a pretty steep
learning curve, and you have to spend weeks and months (and sometimes
years) reading and experimenting until you understand how things work. And
that is why it's usually cheaper and faster to hire somebody to do that
work for you.
Back to your problem. What have you tried? I only remember seeing your
call to addWatermarkFromText using just the text argument. BTW: There was
no need to start a new thread, you should have kept everything in the first
thread you started, this way everything is in one place. If you've posted
more in the other thread, then you are making it much harder for us to
provide help.
So again, what have you tried and what results have you gotten? What error
messages did the system produce? When? When you compiled the code, or when
you tried to execute it?
Karl Heinz Kremer
PDF Acrobatics Without a Net
PDF Software Development, Training and More...
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:31 AM, I Love Mustangs
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