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Software Library for PDF Creation and Manipulation

2007-02-03 06:03:19

mgs

Registered: Feb 3 2007

Posts: 4

As a software developer I am looking for a libary for manipulating PDF documents from within my own applications - such as: open PDF, find text, modify bookmarks, update text, etc.

Does Adobe offer a libary which can be used from either VB6 or VS2005 languages?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows

2007-02-05 19:54:40

pdftrainer

Registered: Dec 14 2005

Posts: 180

Adobe and third parties offer creation libraries.

As far as manipulation goes, the answer is "it depends." Start out with the free interactive communication guide:

[url=http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/sdk/pdf/iac/IACReference.pdf]http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/sdk/pdf/iac/IACReference.pdf[/url]

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2007-02-05 23:00:04

mgs

Registered: Feb 3 2007

Posts: 4

Thank's a lot for the answer.

I did look at the above mentioned document. It seems as if the "it depends" is better expressed as "probably not".

Accessing PDF documents with a programming model seems to be complicated and not all functions are supported. There are several libraries from Adobe and from third parties. I have not found a library, which can be used for a big number of tasks. Probably, even if you combined all libraries, some needed functions would still be left outside.