Get Information about a PDF file

 Keywords:  ADOBE ACROBAT PDF PROPERTIES

Note: In order to use the OLE object made available by Acrobat Reader, you must have the full Acrobat product installed on your system. You need the Acrobat Viewer, PDF development too, and Acrobat Exchange to do OLE.

You can purchase an Acrobat Reader Integration license for $100.00 that allows you to develop "approved" plugins for the reader. If you have the full version of adobe installed, which is an OLE Server, you can make OLE calls to the Viewer/Reader by default.

The code below works if you have the full version of Adobe installed.

Here is an OLE reference page:

Interapplication Communication IACOverview

Sample code:


pdf_file = "C:\temp\invoice.pdf"
adobe = objectopen("AcroExch.app")      ; create an application object
pddoc = ObjectOpen("AcroExch.pddoc")
pddoc.open(pdf_file)
numpages = pddoc.GetNumPages()	      ; Page count
Message("Number of pages", numpages)

InfoValues = "Title,Subject,Author,Keywords,Creator,CreationDate,ModDate,Producer"
list = ""
for i = 1 to 8
GiField = ItemExtract(i, InfoValues, ",")
GiValue = pddoc.GetInfo(GiField)
list = StrCat(list,@tab,GiField, " = ",GiValue)
next
list = StrTrim(list)
list = StrReplace(list,@tab,@crlf)
Message("List of values",list)

ret = AskYesNo("New title?","Do you want to change the title?")
if ret == @yes
   mytitle = AskLine("New title?","Enter new title","")
   test = pddoc.SetInfo("Title", mytitle)	   ; Set new value in title
endif


PDPage = pddoc.AcquirePage(0)    ;	  
rect = PDPage.GetSize()
y = rect.y	    ; i.e. 792 -  11 inch at 72 pt per inch
x = rect.x	    ; i.e. 612 -  8.5 inch
Message("Size",StrCat("x = ",x,@crlf,"y = ",y))

pddoc.save(1, pdf_file)
pddoc.close
adobe.exit; exit the application

objectclose(pddoc)      ; close the application object
objectclose(pdpage)      ; close the application object
objectclose(rect)      ; close the application object
objectclose(adobe)      ; close the application object
exit

Article ID:   W15251

File Created: 2008:03:20:12:20:56

Last Updated: 2008:03:20:12:20:56

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