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2011-04-20 10:07:45
dtfhome
Registered: Apr 20 2011
Posts: 4

I am looking to accomplish the following, can anyone provide some assistance:
• We have developed a website front-end that allows a user to upload multiple “comment-enabled” PDF documents.
• Each of the documents originated from the same source file and only differ in the mark-up that had been applied using Adobe Reader.
• We want to Programmatically merge the comments of each child PDF back to the parent\

Thanks in advance.

My Product Information:
Reader, Windows
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2011-04-20 13:12:09
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try67
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Are you using Reader or Acrobat?

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2011-04-20 13:31:44
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dtfhome
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Users use Reader to mark-up the PDF with comments.

I need to be able to programatically merge multiple PDF's from the same source together to show all mark-up in one. I am looking for some type of developer API possibly?
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2011-04-20 13:46:30
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try67
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But are YOU using Reader or Acrobat? not the users. The reason I'm asking is because there's a big difference in the capabilities of both applications.

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2011-04-20 13:57:55
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dtfhome
Registered: Apr 20 2011
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that's thing, I am using neither. I am a web developer and want to programatically merge the mark-ups with some type of API -- in other words, merge on the website without having to use a reader or acrobat client.
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2011-04-20 14:07:46
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
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There are several libraries for working with PDF files in PHP, Java, etc including the Adobe PDF Library, but handling Reader-enabled PDF files is not trivial, given they're signed by the Adobe shared key.

Assuming you're Reader-extending the original PDF file using Acrobat rather than LiveCycle, then you will need to be very aware of the Acrobat EULA, which places a 500-response limit on reception of data from any Reader-extended PDF file, irrespective of how circuitous that reception method happens to be. Your web-based system will certainly be covered, and you absolutely cannot run Acrobat on the server as a CGI application.

Processing PDF files on a server is really the domain of LiveCycle, hence the restrictions within the Acrobat EULA.

dtfhome wrote:
that's thing, I am using neither. I am a web developer and want to programatically merge the mark-ups with some type of API -- in other words, merge on the website without having to use a reader or acrobat client.
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2011-04-20 14:16:01
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
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Your profile says you are using Reader.

Sounds like you need to specifically target Developers or SDK coders.

Have you looked at Pdftk?
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Have you looked at the Acrobat SDK kit?

George Kaiser

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2011-04-20 14:31:42
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
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gkaiseril wrote:
Have you looked at the Acrobat SDK kit?
Don't bother - if you're working on a webserver, you are [b]not[/b] permitted to install Acrobat so the SDK is irrelevant.

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2011-04-20 14:44:07
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dtfhome
Registered: Apr 20 2011
Posts: 4
thank you for the responses
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