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[. . . ] ® Acrobat® 7. 0. 5 Adobe Acrobat SDK User's Guide July 27, 2005 Adobe Solutions Network -- http://partners. adobe. com © 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Acrobat® SDK User's Guide If this guide is distributed with software that includes an end user agreement, this guide, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. Except as permitted by any such license, no part of this guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Please note that the content in this guide is protected under copyright law even if it is not distributed with software that includes an end user license agreement. [. . . ] The FixedPrint object is only used when printing or exporting to PostScript. The content of a FixedPrint is fixed to a region of a printed page. FixedPrint uses marked content so that any content is permitted. The placement coordinates can be either relative or absolute. You can access FixedPrint using the improved header, footer and watermarking tools in the Acrobat user interface. There are no high-level plug-in APIs for manipulation FixedPrint objects. You can, however, manipulate FixedPrint from using PDEdit and Cos level APIs. There are no equivalent Acrobat JavaScript APIs. 54 Acrobat SDK User's Guide Working with PDF Documents Spell-Checking 5 Spell-Checking Acrobat provides a Spelling plug-in that can scan a document for spelling errors. Using any of the Acrobat SDK technologies, you can do the following: Add or remove a dictionary from the list of available dictionaries Add or remove a spelling domain (search scope) from the Spell Check dialog box Add or remove a word in the user's dictionary Check the spelling of an individual word Ignore all occurrences of a word in a document when spell-checking Scan a text buffer and return the next word Set the document's dictionary search order Set the document's dictionary search order from an array of ISO 639-2 and 3166 language codes, allowing you to identify a dictionary by language rather than by name The following additional functionality is available to plug-ins and external applications, but is not available using Acrobat JavaScript: Check a text object and optionally receive a callback for each change as the user interacts with the Spell Check dialog box Count the words in a text buffer that are contained in each of a set of dictionaries Create a new custom user dictionary and add it to the list of available dictionaries Using Multimedia Multimedia objects can be included in the content of PDF documents, as well as in annotations. You can only manipulate multimedia objects and players using JavaScript; you cannot use a plug-in. Using Acrobat JavaScript, you can: Customize the settings, renditions, and events associated with media players Access and control the properties for all monitors connected to the system Add movie and sound clips Add and edit renditions Control rendition settings Set multimedia preferences that apply throughout a document For more information, see the Acrobat SDK JavaScript Scripting Guide and the Acrobat SDK JavaScript Scripting Reference. Acrobat SDK User's Guide 55 5 Working with PDF Documents Interacting with OBDC Databases Interacting with OBDC Databases Acrobat JavaScript provides an ODBC-compliant object model called Acrobat Database Connectivity (ADBC), which can be used in document-level scripts to connect to a database for the purposes of inserting new information, updating existing information, and deleting database entries. ADBC provides a simplified interface to ODBC, which it uses to establish a connection to a database and access its data, and supports the usage of SQL statements for data access, update, deletion, and retrieval. To use ADBC, ODBC must be installed on a client machine running a Microsoft Windows operating system. Note that ADBC does not provide security measures with respect to database access; it is assumed that the database administrator will establish and maintain the security of all data. Pri nt in g PD F Fi le s Using the Acrobat SDK, you can control the way that Acrobat, Adobe Reader or your external application prints PDF files. Customizing and Automating Printing Using any of the Acrobat technologies, you can customize the way that a PDF document is printed. Printing from Acrobat JavaScript Since printing involves sending pages to an output device, there are many options that can affect print quality. Acrobat JavaScript can be used to enhance and automate the use of these options in print production workflows, primarily through the use of the PrintParams object. For a complete list of parameters, see the Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide. Printing from a Plug-in You can use AVDoc methods to customize and control how a PDF file is printed from Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Depending on the methods you use, a user interface is either invoked or not. The AVDocDoPrint method invokes the print user interface, where the user can then specify printing parameters. The AVDocPrintPages method prints a document to the current printer using the current print settings and job settings with no user interface. You can specify a page range, a PostScript version and whether to shrink the pages to fit the printer. 56 Acrobat SDK User's Guide Working with PDF Documents Working with Embedded Fonts 5 To set more specific parameters for printing without a user interface, you must use the AVDocPrintPagesWithParams method. [. . . ] Using the Acrobat SDK, you can display, navigate and print layered PDF documents. This chapter consists of the following sections: About Adobe PDF layers Creating Layered PDF Files Navigating with Layers Working with Layers from Acrobat JavaScript Working with Layers from a Plug-in About Adobe PDF layers Acrobat supports the display, navigation, and printing of layered Adobe PDF content output by applications such as Adobe InDesign, AutoCAD, and Microsoft Visio. PDF layers are supported through the usage of PDF Optional Content Group (OCG) objects. Optional content refers to content in a PDF document that can be selectively viewed or hidden. [. . . ]