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This deals with the Adobe Acrobat API.

I am writing a program using VBA (Word) and the API for Acrobat that can fill in Adobe forms. Right now it can open an Acrobat form and fill it in using my own external data. But I want it to be able to detect if a form is already open and then connect to it seamlessly. Can that be done?


Roy Lasris


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Yes, this can be done. Do you have the Acrobat SDK? You can access the documentation here:

http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/acrobat_sdk/11/Acrobat11_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?&accessible=true

To find out if the document you need is already open, you need to first use the AcroExch.App.GetNumAVDocs function, and then iterate over all open documents using AcroExch.App.GetAVDoc

Now you can - using AcroExch.AVDoc.GetPDDoc and PDDoc.GetFileName - find out what the filename for each document is. At this point you also have the PDDoc, which you need to fill in the form fields.

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