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Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:51 am
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.
Re: Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:14 am
by Tom
We use Foxit. Much better. Comes as a DLL.
Re: Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:20 am
by rdonnay
Thanks Tom.
I always appreciate your recommendations.
Re: Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:04 am
by Tom
Was that ironic?
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.
Re: Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:49 am
by Auge_Ohr
hi,
have a look at SumatraPDF
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html
you can control SumatraPDF with DLLcalll instead of activeX
Re: Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:58 pm
by rdonnay
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.
Re: Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 2:27 pm
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
Code: Select all
https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249
Re: Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 1:57 am
by Tom
Can you also WRITE form data to a PDF?
Of course. Look here:
https://www.quickpdflibrary.com/product ... /index.php
Re: Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:54 am
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.
Re: Acrobat DC SDK
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:26 am
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.