I have a windows form in VB.net having the following tools
Adobe pdf Reader(AxAcroPDF)
A Text box
Two Buttons
On Clicking the first button ,the pdf file selected using Open dialog box will appear on AxAcroPDF.
I Want to SELECT a desired text from the pdf shown and then to display this text to the text box(Copy & Paste Method) on the click event of the second button.
I cannot find the AxAcroPDF.Selectedtext property.I searched a lot and also tried to use iTextSharp to accomplish it.But failed.
Please Help !
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I am using data in an Excel workbook to create an HTML string when a user clicks a button. I then use VBA to save that string as an .html file, open it in Word, and bring Word to the foreground. That all works great.
Now, I'd like to add a line(s) to the VBA to select the document formatting.
In the Word doc that opens, there's this in the ribbon:
When I hover over that formatting option, it's called "Lines (simple)." I can click it in Word, and it formats the text exactly how I want it. But, I'd like to do so automatically with the VBA over in Excel that created and launched the Word document. Unfortunately I just don't know which command or property that is and haven't been able to find it with searches or document inspection. I'd appreciate your help.
I wanted to automate below process using macro:
Browse word document from local machine
Copy the data from that word document and paste into text area of below web page
Web page
Click on 'Analyze' button from the web page
Next click on 'keywords' button from the web page
I'm not much familiar with vba.
I have tried writing the code as shown in the image but I am getting
errors for this code.It will be grateful if somebody helps,Thanks
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I have a PDF with forms defined in it.
One field in the form is a multi line text field.
The value in the text field is populated by a java program using Apache PDFBox.
The issue is when the value is of around 5 to 6 lines, the text box displays the text automatically. But if it is more than 6 lines, the text box does not display the value. I had to specifically click on the text field to display the text. If I click outside the text box again, the text disappears.
The text field is read only with Multi Line and Scrolling options enabled.
Any ideas what is causing this weird issue?
I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 11, Adobe Acrobat XI and Adobe Reader to view the files. All have the same issue.
It sounds like a typical "appearance" problem. There's no form field appearance in the field widget dictionary so when you click in the field, the raw string data is shown but when you click out there is no appearance to display so you get a blank. You can test this out by toggling the multi-line setting in the field properties in Acrobat so it generates an appearance. If that fixes it, then you the problem is the one I describe.
You can use PDFBox to set the "needs appearances" flag in the file that will tell Adobe viewers to regenerate field appearances when the file is opened but that doesn't work for all PDF viewers. To make the field value visible in all PDF viewers, it's best to generate appearances when you populate the field values.
The Datalogics PDF Java Toolkit can automatically generate appearances based on field values. Full disclosure, I represent Datalogics.
So I have this Word doc with a bunch of ActiveX buttons, and whenever one of the buttons is pressed, a corresponding image pops up in a userform. It looks like this:
My problem is that each of the images that pops up is a screenshot of a portion of a PDF, but my users actually need to be able to select/copy the text presented.
Is there any good way to embed portions of a PDF file in a userform so that the text is select-able? It shouldn't be edit-able, just select-able.
Or, worst case scenario, what might be the easiest way to copy text from the PDF myself and format it onto a userform?
Thanks!
I wouldn't recommend using the image control for this if you want user to select the text from pdf.
Do this.
Install Adobe Pdf Reader on your pc.
Create a New Userform and place the AcroPDF1 and CommandButton control and you are done.
To Add the AcroPDF1 control see the screenshot
Next, draw the control on the Userform and place a CommandButton on the form
This is how your userform might look.
Put this code in the click event of the CommandButton1.
Option Explicit
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
'~~> Change filename as applicable
AcroPDF1.LoadFile "C:\Sample.Pdf"
End Sub
Now when you run it, the pdf will be displayed and you can select text. See screenshot below.
Here is what I did:
1. I have a template WORD file that can be used to fill an application for some stuff. Assigned pre-defined tags to fillable fields.
2. Converted that word file to PDF file using CenoPdf
3. Used iText to fill the fields in generated PDF file.
4. Now when user downloads that filled file, they see a nice purple at the bar saying "Please fill out the following form. You can not save data typed into this form. Please print your completed form if you would like to copy for your records".
how can i get rid of this purple bar and the message? I am assuming i need to set some bits through iText to turn this off??
Thanks
You can't edit the purple bar at the top. This is a flaw with Acrobat. Whenever your PDF contains form fields, the message is automatically displayed by force and you cannot edit it. Adobe feels that it's users are more important than it's developers, and forces the bar and message whenever form fields are present.