Search the Community

This UDF is because I'm tired of trying to use UI Automation and Send to automate Adobe Acrobat. I often need to read the contents of PDFs and Acrobat is not easy to work with as a window. The functions are based on the API Reference from Adobe located here. Acrobat Pro is required for all functions. It's very beta right now, but it still seems to work. Currently, the functions are based around page level manipulation of PDF documents: re-arranging, swapping, deleting, and moving pages as this is what I use the most. Please feel free to request/suggest features!

Hi, since some days I become this error message exiting my app: Eventviewer shows following data: Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: autoit3.exe, Version: 3.3.14.2, Zeitstempel: 0x55fc1979 Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: ntdll.dll, Version: 6.1.7601.23864, Zeitstempel: 0x595fa490 Ausnahmecode: 0xc000000d Fehleroffset: 0x000987e0 I stripped my code from 1500 lines down to 70: #include <GUIConstants.au3> Global $g_sPathToPDF = ; path to some pdf file to show Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1) ; default ist 0 ; 1 bedeutet, daß bei Klick direkt die darunterbeschriebene Funktion ausgeführt wird Global $g_hGUI_MAIN ; Haupt-GUI Global $g_hDummy_Main ; Dummy um Fokus in der Haupt-GUI unsichtbar zu setzen Global $g_hGUI_Pruefen ; GUI zum Prüfen aller PDF Global $g_hGUI_PDF ; GUI PDF-Ansicht der ausgewählten PDF Global $g_hPDF ; ActiveX control welches das PDF enthält Global $g_oAcrobatReader ; AcrobatReaderObjekt in dem die PDF gezeigt werden _GUI_Main() GUISetOnEvent ($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "_Exit_Main" , $g_hGUI_MAIN) While 1 Sleep(1) WEnd Exit Func _GUI_Main() ; GUI-MAIN $g_hGUI_MAIN = GUICreate("MAIN", 390, 390, 763, 372) GUISetFont(12) GUICtrlCreateButton("NEXT", 20, 20, 350, 55, $BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON) ; Default-Knopf GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_GUI_Pruefen") GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $g_hGUI_MAIN) ; GUI anzeigen EndFunc Func _GUI_Pruefen() ; GUI zum Prüfen der PDF GUISetState(@SW_HIDE, $g_hGUI_MAIN) ; MAIN-GUI ausblenden Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 0) ; wieder auf Default gesetzt $g_hGUI_Pruefen = GUICreate("RIGHT", 490,950, 1057, 91, -1, $WS_EX_APPWINDOW, $g_hGUI_MAIN) _AcrobatShow($g_sPathToPDF, "", 367, 91, 674, 950, $g_hGUI_Pruefen) ; PDF-GUI erstellen GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $g_hGUI_Pruefen) ; GUI-Prüfen anzeigen Local $msg While 1 $msg = GuiGetMsg() ; Aktion mit der GUI registrieren Switch $msg ; je nach Aktion mit der GUI Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE ; X gedrückt $g_oAcrobatReader = "" ; zerstöre das Objekt AcrobatReader GUIDelete($g_hGUI_PDF) ; lösche die GUI-PDF GUIDelete($g_hGUI_Pruefen) ; lösche die GUI-Prüfen Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1) ; Default 0 GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $g_hGUI_MAIN) ; MAIN-GUI wieder zeigen Return EndSwitch WEnd EndFunc Func _Exit_Main() ; ausführen, wenn die MAIN-GUI schließt ConsoleWrite("EXIT" & @CRLF) Exit EndFunc Func _AcrobatShow($sFile, $sTitle = "PDF ", $iLeft = 50, $iTop = 0, $iWidth = 1000, $iHeight = 700, $hWnd = "") ; GUI-PDF erstellen If FileExists($sFile) Then ; wenn das PDF existiert $g_oAcrobatReader = ObjCreate("AcroPDF.PDF.1") $g_oAcrobatReader.src = $sFile ; Quelle ist das File $g_oAcrobatReader.SetLayoutMode("SinglePage") ; default "SinglePage" $g_oAcrobatReader.SetPageMode("none") ; default "none" $g_oAcrobatReader.SetShowToolbar(0) ; Tool-Bar nicht zeigen 0 $g_oAcrobatReader.SetShowScrollbars(0) ; Scroll-Balken nicht zeigen 0 $g_oAcrobatReader.SetView("fit") ; "fit" falls wer eigene Einstellungen im Reader gespeichert hat $g_hGUI_PDF = GUICreate($sTitle, $iWidth, $iHeight, $iLeft, $iTop, -1, -1, $hWnd) ; GUI als Child zu GUI-PRUEFEN erstellen - es soll nicht aktiviert werden $g_hPDF = GUICtrlCreateObj($g_oAcrobatReader, 0, 0, $iWidth, $iHeight) ; Objekt für das PDF erstellen GUICtrlSetStyle($g_hPDF, $WS_VISIBLE) ; PDF anzeigen GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $g_hGUI_PDF) ; GUI-PDF anzeigen Else MsgBox(0, 'ERROR', "No PDF found.") EndIf EndFunc Do following steps to prove: - start app - click "next" on main gui - wait minimum 5 seconds (until the arrows left and right on "gui left" disappear) - close gui left or right - close main gui - look on console written "EXIT" the last code line before exit - now windows error message above appears The funny thing is if I don't wait the 5 seconds (before the half transparent arrows disappear) closing the gui then I will get no win error message. If I comment _AcrobatShow() out then the error never appears. So it seemed to be an acrobat reader issue. Every week at work there are a lot of updates, but there is no chance to know which one. But since one update this error happens. Any solutions? Regards, Conrad

I am BRAND new to Autoit......in fact, experiencing install problems....that is a whole different can of worms. But I have several thousand PDF files, I can manually use keyboard and mouse to open each file and "Optimize" it ( Acrobat internal function to compress by 5x+/-) Then save the file with a modified name = original name &"O" I'm hoping to develop an Autoit script to loop through each file in a folder and Optimize it/save it Has anybody done it already?

I'm not sure if this should be help and support, COM help, or chat, so I posted it here I've been dealing with Acrobat (8.1 Pro) using the COM interface and the acroexch.app object and it's javascript interface to do a variety of tasks with PDF's (take a large file, read the text of the pages, split it into separate files depending on results). It works pretty well, but Acrobat has been glitchy and slow and loves to mess up the pdf file. I'm vetting sick of having to rescan a batch because acrobat messed up the internal PDF structure Does anyone else know of some kind of free PDF tool that's usable from autoit? Somthing command line? OR even better, something with an OLE interface? Acrobat is really getting on my nerves

How do I attach to the active acrobat window and get it's javascript object? I know how to do this when i know the filename: $oAcro = ObjCreate("acroexch.app") $oPDF = ObjCreate("AcroExch.PDDoc") $File = @ScriptDir&"\test.PDF" $oPDF.Open($File) $oJSpdf = $oPDF.getJSObject.app.opendoc($File) But how would i do this if I didn't know $File? If I wanted to connect to the Active window instead?