Re: Embedded Acrobat and Javascript API
My personal opinion is that the use of PDFs for web forms to a general audience is now a less good prospect than it ever was, because we have to deal with such a maze of non-compliant apps including...
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Signing, ironically enough is not a problem for us. We have that solution already. Our customers use Topaz signature hardware to initiate the signing process. Topaz utilities are very good at this, and...
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Do you have the Acrobat SDK? That is the main and pretty much only documentation. However, you may be right that Adobe are trying to funnel you into using JavaScript and hence buying Acrobat Pro. It...
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Yes I do, however I'm actually finding some more complete (or easier to search and find??) documentation on their website. Thanks for the input. I wonder if anyone else has any other ideas? I feel like...
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Yes, this is perfectly reasonable. People have been doing this for more than a decade with PDF. And yes, there are both SOAP APIs (that will only work with Acrobat, but not Reader) as well as a way...
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I am a total novice to the Adobe Acrobat programmatic interface. I use VBA. How can I find out what the MenuItemExecute parameter name is for any particular menu item? Can MenuItemExecute be used to...
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As documented ni the SDK, there is a JavaScript command you can issue to get the list. No, it only works on command-based items. What do you want to do that requires checked items? How can you still...
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Can you give me a little more information on where to find the JavaScript command and its usage to get MenuItem info? Ok, I have a few applications written in MSAccess in which we get data in pdf...
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Well, the approach you are taking is completely wrong – being driven the ancient software that you trying to drive. Since Acrobat 7 or 8, we have had the ability to save a PDF as RTF and since Acrobat...
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Is there no way to check a menu item with the scripting language?Ok, the machine with Acrobat 9 is the one with the problem so, how do I get that to save as Word using the scripting language? I didn't...
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You need to use the JavaScript bridge and the this.save() method. Documentation and samples in the SDK.
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First item back in a web search http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat.html
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The following code works fine when I save as a text file but gives me NotAllowedError when I try Excel (I didn't find an ID for Word which is what I really want) Sub convertpdf2() Dim AcroXApp As...
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Actually, it works when I try exporting as Word. Somehow, Excel doesn't wanna work with the previously described error message. I had assumed that Word wouldn't have worked because it was a...
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Looks like Im back at square 1. Saving some pdfs as word using the native JSObject.SaveAs method, renders awfully with some of the data I need to parse embedded in shapes objects or some other...
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Try doing a Save as Text from JavaScript instead of Word – and hten parse that?
View ArticleIn app pdf viewer plugin
Hello We are developing an app or a customer who wants to be able to show pdf in apps. For this we need a custom pdf viewer or something like a adobe pdf viewer plugin to use. Does something like this...
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I have done that where it works. There is, so far, one file that insists on saving a 0-byte file in txt, even though there is plenty of data in the pdf. I am fine with the work-around that I ask about....
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