Quick question from a newbie... Can I use an API of the Adobe Reader to open and fill out a PDF form to my MFC application?

Hello people.

If I'm in the wrong forum, might well want to suggest a more appropriate forum?

It is a pretty basic question.

I downloaded the SDK and watched, but I'm still a little uncertain. Simply because there is a ton of information to this site, and it's all new to me.

I have a Visual Studio MFC application. (Visual Studio 2008)

I want to change the application to read a PDF form to fill out, and I want to programmatially fill in some of the data in the field as it appears on the screen. This could be considered writing a PDF file, but I think it's only complete, because I can do this with Acrobat Reader. I assume that there is an API available to do this.

I saw something on IAC, then maybe that where I need to study.

I'm the developer. I need to buy Adobe Acrobat? Or is the right drive for this?

My customers will need to purchase Adobe Acrobat? Or the drive will be enough?

It's one thing for me as a developer to buy the tool to improve enforcement, but another question, if I go to the end users and tell them that they need to buy and install Adobe Acrobat.

I'm not afraid to have a discussion, I just want to know ahead what debate, I need to have.

Are there different APIs available for different Windows OS? One for XP for Vista 32-bit, one for Vista 64-bit, for Windows 7... etc.

Or is this the same way, regardless of the platform?

I'm looking for advice.

All would be appreciated.

Thank you

The only way to fill a form in Adobe Reader is to use the file in FDF or XFDF format.   They are text-based formats that you can put the form data and a link to the PDF document in and then ask the REader to open it (and the associated PDF file) upwards and fill automatically.

You can't poll drive for more information, however.

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