USE PDF COM ?

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I want to write a script about PDF. I need to OPEN PDF document in my Script,how I do it ?

[PsaltyDS]

I want to write a script about PDF. I need to OPEN PDF document in my Script,how I do it ?

Adobe opened their definition of .pdf files so anyone can write a program to read and write them, providing certain Adobe policies are maintained, like respecting read-only settings inside the file. There now are many free/open source apps to open and create .pdf files, and of course the free Adobe Acrobat Reader too.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pdf:

Free readers for many platforms are available: the free Adobe Reader by Adobe Systems, the free Foxit Reader, and several free open source readers, including Xpdf, KPDF, GPdf, Evince, GSPdf and ViewPDF, and front-ends for many platforms to Ghostscript.

[doucment]

Xpdf 3.01pl1 was released 2005-dec-01.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

Nov 29, 2005: KPDF 0.5.0 released

http://kpdf.kde.org/news.php#itemKPDF050released

2003-07-01 jdub has just uploaded the GPdf 0.104 tarball.

http://web.inf.tu-dresden.de/~mk793652/gpdf/

evince

http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

GSPdf

http://www.gnustep.it/enrico/gspdf/

viewpdf

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http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/viewpdf

Most of them are run on Unix or Linux.

Autoit can only run on Windows.

Is there acrobat reader SDK to download?

[PsaltyDS]

Most of them are run on Unix or Linux.

Autoit can only run on Windows.

Is there acrobat reader SDK to download?

Google "PDF SDK" and you get more than a million hits...

Also, OpenOffice.org is free and open source, has a command line interface for its macro language, and does PDF inport/export natively (not to mention ODF, DOC, etc.).

[Xander]

Maybe we're overcomplicating the question. How about this?

Run("C:\program files\adobe\reader\reader.exe pathtoPDFfile.pdf")

[ptrex]

Hi This shouls get you started:

This Sample access the ActiveX component of the Adobe Reader.

There is still a problem opening a file. But Googling your way around, you should find the solution.

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; Author:   ptrex
; AutoIt Version: 3.1.1.103
; Description: Very Simple example: Embedding Acrobat PDF object
; Needs: Acrobat Reader to be installed
; Date: 25 jan 2006

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#NoTrayIcon

;Vars
Dim $oMyError
Dim $File
Dim $Version

;$File="C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Help\ENU\Reader.pdf"

;Declare objects
$oPDF = ObjCreate("AcroPDF.PDF.1");

$Version=$oPDF.GetVersions

;Main Gui
GuiCreate("PDF Object", 802, 590,(@DesktopWidth-802)/2, (@DesktopHeight-590)/2 , $WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW + $WS_VISIBLE + $WS_CLIPSIBLINGS)
;$oPDF.LoadFile("C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Help\ENU\Reader.pdf")
$GUI_ActiveX = GUICtrlCreateObj ($oPDF, 10, 10 , 780 , 550)
GUICtrlSetStyle ( $GUI_ActiveX,  $WS_VISIBLE )
GUICtrlSetResizing ($GUI_ActiveX,$GUI_DOCKAUTO) ; Auto Resize Object
    
    
GuiSetState()

MsgBox(0,"Show Versions",$Version)

While 1
    $msg = GuiGetMsg()
    Select
    Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
        ExitLoop
    EndSelect
WEnd
$oPDF = ""
$GUIActiveX = ""
Exit

;This is SvenP 's custom error handler
Func MyErrFunc()
  $HexNumber=hex($oMyError.number,8)
  Msgbox(0,"AutoItCOM Test","We intercepted a COM Error !"     & @CRLF  & @CRLF & _
             "err.description is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.description  & @CRLF & _
             "err.windescription:"   & @TAB & $oMyError.windescription & @CRLF & _
             "err.number is: "       & @TAB & $HexNumber              & @CRLF & _
             "err.lastdllerror is: "   & @TAB & $oMyError.lastdllerror   & @CRLF & _
             "err.scriptline is: "   & @TAB & $oMyError.scriptline   & @CRLF & _
             "err.source is: "       & @TAB & $oMyError.source       & @CRLF & _
             "err.helpfile is: "       & @TAB & $oMyError.helpfile     & @CRLF & _
             "err.helpcontext is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.helpcontext _
            )
  SetError(1) ; to check for after this function returns
Endfunc

Enjoy.

[JKL]

You should use the src property of the PDF object instead of the loadfile method.

;$oPDF.LoadFile("C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Help\ENU\Reader.pdf")
$oPDF.src="C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Help\ENU\Reader.pdf"

It worked well with AutoIt v. 3.1.1.125 and c:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat7.0\ActiveX\AcroPDF.dll

Edited June 7, 2006 by JKL