Category Archives: PDF

All About PDF Stamps

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Putting “All About PDF Stamps” on the cover puts the bar pretty high when you write a book about PDF Stamps… But Thom Parker clears that bar without any problems! His book “All About PDF Stamps in Acrobat & Paperless … Continue reading →

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Installing PDFtk on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

One of my favorite PDF related tools is PDFtk. Some time ago I complained that it was no longer supported, but it seems that development has picked up again, and you can now find a brand new version – one … Continue reading →

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Prevent the Save Dialog when Printing to the Adobe PDF Printer

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

[ 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

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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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Validating Field Contents

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Karl Heinz Kremer

One of the questions I get asked again and again is how to validate a field value in an AcroForm with a custom validation script. Adobe provided a lot of infrastructure to do that with just a simple script. Let’s … Continue reading →

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Nastyware Claiming to be Adobe Reader

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Karl Heinz Kremer

I just received an interesting email, claiming to come from Adobe. This is the first time I’ve seen such a sneaky attempt to get me to download something to my computer that could do some pretty nasty stuff to me, … Continue reading →

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Acrobat JavaScripts – Where do they go?

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Karl Heinz Kremer

JavaScripts in Acrobat can either be attached to a document – for example to validate a form field – or they can be loaded directly into the application as a folder level script. It’s pretty straight forward to figure out … Continue reading →

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The X Files: Acrobat Edition

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Karl Heinz Kremer

A New Version of Acrobat Have you noticed that it’s been more than two years since the release of Adobe Acrobat 9? Usually, Adobe releases a new version every 18 to 24 months, so a new version has been overdue. … Continue reading →

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Reading And Modifying PDF Form Fields with VBA

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Karl Heinz Kremer

I’ve written about VBA and Acrobat JavaScript before, and I’ve also mentioned that you can combine VBA and JavaScript to access PDF form fields, but I still owe a sample for that. I had to answer another question today about … Continue reading →

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