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Preface
Adobe® Reader® belongs to the Adobe Acrobat® family of products, and is used for viewing, navigating,
and printing PDF documents. For more information on the Acrobat family of products, see
http://www.adobe.com/go/acrobat_developer
.
What’s in this guide?
This guide provides an introduction to those portions of the Adobe Acrobat Software Development Kit
(SDK) that pertain to your development efforts for Adobe Reader. It provides a general overview of the
types of things you can do with the SDK and the technologies that are available to you through the SDK.
This document provides a starting point for developers who would like to understand how to extend or
customize Adobe Reader, and provides information clarifying how such efforts differ from those intended
for Acrobat.
It is possible to extend and customize Adobe Reader by using the Adobe Acrobat SDK to write JavaScript™
code, implement interapplication communication, and write plug-ins. This document indicates the
relevant subsets of the JavaScript APIs, interapplication communication APIs, and the Acrobat and PDF
Library APIs. It describes each of those collections of APIs and their intended purposes, and clarifies what is
available on all supported platforms.
Who should read this guide?
This guide is meant for developers who are either new to Adobe Reader development or have experience
with the Acrobat SDK.
For information about Acrobat SDK technologies and the many ways that developers can extend Acrobat
or Adobe Reader using the Acrobat SDK, see the
Overview.
Related documentation
The following resources and samples provide further information about the Acrobat SDK, as well as
additional documents that you should have available for reference.
For information about
See
A roadmap containing descriptions of all the documentation
in the Acrobat SDK.
Acrobat SDK Documentation Roadmap
A description of known issues and implementation details
specific to the various platforms supported in the
Acrobat SDK.
Readme
Answers to frequently asked questions about the
Acrobat 8.0 SDK.
Developer FAQ
The new features in this SDK release.
What’s New