Tag Archives: Programming

Prevent the Save Dialog when Printing to the Adobe PDF Printer

[ UPDATE: For use on a 64bit system, see Kevin Rappold’s comment below. ] This is from the category “Frequently Asked Questions” – this time how to programmatically specify an output filename when printing to the Adobe PDF printer. As … Continue reading

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The End is Here – of ADM that is

Adobe just released the Acrobat XI SDK, and as usual, there are a number of changes – new APIs, modified ones, and the final removal of ADM (that is the Adobe Dialog Manager). The release notes are here [PDF]. I’ve talked about this … Continue reading

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The Trouble With the XREF Table

Have you ever tried to debug a problem with the XREF table in a PDF file? I’ve been debugging PDF problems for a long time, and every now and then I come across a file that has a corrupt XREF … Continue reading

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Acrobat, JavaScript and VB walk into a bar…

OK, let’s just forget about that old joke and concentrate on how to combine all three into something that is quite useful. As I’ve described in one of my previous posting, it is quite easy to automate Acrobat from VB … Continue reading

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