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Acrobat SDK User’s Guide
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Technologies Supported by the
Acrobat SDK
As mentioned in “What Is the Acrobat SDK?” on page 17 , you can develop software that
integrates with Acrobat and Adobe Reader in three ways:
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Acrobat JavaScript
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Plug-ins
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Interapplication Communication (IAC)
The Acrobat SDK provides support for development on both Windows
®
and Apple
Macintosh
®
environments. A Unix version of the Acrobat SDK is also available from
http://partners.adobe.com/asn . It has release notes containing UNIX-specific information.
Besides the technologies provided by the Acrobat SDK, you can also use the Adobe PDF
Library (PDFL) to develop applications that create and manipulate PDF documents but do
not interact with Acrobat. The Adobe PDF Library is licensed separately from the Acrobat
SDK. An overview of the PDF Library is provided in
“The Adobe PDF Library” on page 28 .
Acrobat JavaScript
Acrobat JavaScript is a cross-platform scripting language. Through its JavaScript
extensions, Acrobat exposes much of the functionality of Acrobat and its plug-ins to the
document author.
Acrobat JavaScript objects, properties and methods can also be accessed through Visual
Basic or C# to automate the processing of PDF documents. See
“Accessing the JSObject
Interface” on page 27 .
For complete information on Acrobat JavaScript objects, see the Acrobat JavaScript
Scripting Guide and the Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Reference .
Acrobat JavaScript Objects
Acrobat JavaScript defines several objects that allow your code to interact with the Acrobat
application, a PDF document, or fields within a PDF document. The most commonly used
objects control the Acrobat or Adobe Reader application, the Acrobat JavaScript console,
the PDF document, the Adobe Dialog Manager, SOAP web services, databases, security,
searches, and JavaScript events.
For a complete list of Acrobat JavaScript objects, see the Acrobat JavaScript Scripting
Reference .