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Acrobat DC SDK

#1 Post by rdonnay »

Has anyone tried to use the Acrobat DC SDK with Xbase++?

I am being asked by Bobby Drakos to use it to write a custom reader and other stuff.
It looks like there is no ActiveX support, only .NET support.
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We use Foxit. Much better. Comes as a DLL.
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Thanks Tom.
I always appreciate your recommendations.
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Was that ironic? 8-)

What I was trying to say: We struggled with Acrobat for a long time, having various CLSIDs for all the different versions out there, but it didn't work well (Active X). So we bought "VS PDF Viewer" some years ago, which worked and still works okay, but it isn't supported anymore and it has a limited feature set. So we bought the Debenu/Foxit "QuickPDF" library, which has a lot of functionality - we needed the ability to read form data from a PDF, for instance, and that is supported. QuickPDF is fast, comes as a DLL (you may need OT4XB), is threadsafe and stable.
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hi,

have a look at SumatraPDF
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

you can control SumatraPDF with DLLcalll instead of activeX
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we needed the ability to read form data from a PDF,
Can you also WRITE form data to a PDF?
That's what Bobby needs.
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#7 Post by Auge_Ohr »

hi,
rdonnay wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:58 pm
we needed the ability to read form data from a PDF,
Can you also WRITE form data to a PDF?
That's what Bobby needs.
SumatraPDF is based on MuPDF-GL which can "fill" PDF

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https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249
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Can you also WRITE form data to a PDF?
Of course. Look here:

https://www.quickpdflibrary.com/product ... /index.php
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#9 Post by rdonnay »

Bobby's requirement for this project is very odd, but not necessarily unique.
Bob Volz needs the same capability.

They need to add a signature image to an area of the PDF, only when printing.
It cannot modify the content of the PDF, due to legal ramifications.

My imagination doesn't give me any ideas about how to do this.
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#10 Post by Tom »

As we use L&L, we are able to place a PDF on a form which also contains other form elements. May that be a solution? I can't imagine how to manipulate a PDF in a manner that makes it containing a signature field.
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