Tag Archives: Adobe Acrobat

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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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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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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Teaching Adobe Reader a Few New Tricks

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Have you ever tried to fill a PDF form in Adobe Reader and to then save that filed document to your hard disk? Did it work? Chances are that it did not. Have you ever thought about why the Adobe … Continue reading →

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Acrobat, JavaScript and VB walk into a bar…

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Karl Heinz Kremer

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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Counting Bookmarks

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Let’s assume you have a PDF document, and you want to know how many bookmarks you have in that document, how would you approach that? The JavaScript API has methods to traverse the bookmark tree. Here is a short program … Continue reading →

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