Adobe Acrobat

[jon_davis24]

I recently downloaded the Adobe Acrobat 4 SDK. It came with an Adobe Acrobat viewer, which you can download from my website at http://www.geocities.com/jon_davis24/vbdraw.zip. I am extremely interested in developing an editor/creator for Adobe Acrobat files. Can any one help with this? I know they use special formatting in their documents so you can't just tell a program to use a regular common dialog box and save as a .pdf file. How would I create a full fledged editor in VB?

[OB1]

I'm no expert on pdf's but I believe you normally cannot edit a pdf file because it is not stored as text. A pdf file is actually a picture.

[jon_davis24]

II think you may be right . . . but even still, wouldn't there be a way to create an editor? Like, an image editor that imports .pdf files? If anyone knows how to do this, let me know.

Thanx

[OB1]

I think it would have to be a text editor that can also handle pictures (like Micro$oft Word). Then from that, you could export it to a pdf. Good Luck

[Danial]

Hi,
If you want more information on PDF file format you can find it here.
Check the "Full List" section or do a search for PDF.

This is a very good site, it also contains the File format Specification of almost all available file format.

Hope this helps.

I have Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and have used it to create products to market.

Primarily MS Publisher is what we lay out our text and graphics on. We've also used it to record whole websites. Notepad, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, etc all can be imported into Adobe .pdf files. Any document can be transformed into .pdf.

It's not which editor you use, but the ability to create the .pdf formatting.

Wouldn't you need to access the Adobe programming to accomplish what you desire since any document application can be used to create the final .pdf product.