Another PDF question!

[cooterBrown]

This question is asked so many times on the web and every question has a different answer.

I have adobo 9.0 pro extender and need to create a form that will display a pdf file and enable users to select pages from the pdf to pull out and create a new PDF with.

Can I use the SDK to write an application to do this for users that will ONLY have the reader 8.0 and 9.0?

If yes, what libraries will I reference and where is a sample?

[RhinoBull]

I can't test it but I think older pdf readers will still read the document - they just won't have as many new feature as the newer releases.

[cooterBrown]

Are you saying it is possible for a client with the reader only to run an application that has the ability to merge and seperate pdf documents?

[RhinoBull]

No, that was not what I said.
When you automating some software you will have to reference it in your project or at least create new object on-the-fly via late binding.
In any case library that your project automating must be distributed to each of your clients (users) IF those libraries are redistributable (i.e. you cannot include MF Office dlls with your package).
I thought this part was absolutely clear to you - this is basic distribution mrule if you will.
However, you'll need a pdf reader on each destination machine as well in order to read your documents and that's what my previous reply was all about.

Sorry about the confusion.

[cooterBrown]

Rhino.. You were clear. The confusion was my fault.

So, since my users will only have the reader installed and I cannot distribute the Adobe 9.0 extender libraries, can you think of a way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?

Perhaps I can use a pdf printer driver to extract and merge pages together? On my machine, I'm using AcroPDF.dll to pull pages out and insert pages in before shipping to imaging but I'm getting "Cannot create acitve x component" on users machines. Maybe if I use the same logic as I am now but spooling the pages to a print driver I can accomplish the same thing.

Is this rediculous? There has to be a better way!

BTW.. the objective is to use an Outlook add-in to send pdf attachments from the inbox to our image system. Sometimes the attachments are combined (say the sender scanned 4 or 5 documents together) and they need to be seperated to be distibuted to different folios in the image system.

[RhinoBull]

I'm not sure what Adobe 9.0 extender libraries do and/or if you can automate it.
I would research on free/shareware/commercial (depends on your budget) pdf creator component so you can freely distribute it and be confident that your ap will function anywhere identically.
I think full commercial version of Adobe software comes with ocx that can be used and distributed with your app.