The following samples show how to utilise Adobe Acrobat's Interapplication Commmunication (IAC) mechanisms. Adobe Acrobat and Reader support a range of IAC through Apple events and AppleScript on the Apple Macintosh computer), and through DDE and OLE 2 (under Microsoft Ž Windows Ž).

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• UNICODE to ANSI converter A VB procedure for converting UNICODE to ANSI submitted by Roy from Brook House Publishing.
• Merge PDFs with this VB and executable.
• Finding the number of pages in a PDF. The program cycles through a directory, and extracts the number of Pages in each of the PDFs.
• Generating an HTML report of document information for an entire directory of PDF files.
• Finding the number of pages in a PDF. The program cycles through a directory, and extracts the number of Pages in each of the PDFs.
• Routine for cycling through each page in a PDF file to extract the Page Size in Centimetres and also Inches. (HTM).
• Automating batch Excel conversion to PDF using Acrobat 4.0's 'Acrobat Distiller' printer. (HTM).
• How to print a batch of PDFs. Includes a working executable. (HTM)
• A tool for batch printing PDFs with MS Excel. You select a folder of PDFs, build a list, and then print. It's a great little time saver.
• How to remove a single bookmark from a folder of PDFs using VB6. (HTM)
• Automating batch Word DOC conversion to PDF using Acrobat 4.0's 'Acrobat Distiller' printer. (HTM).
• An MS Access module that prints a PDF file (HTM)
• How to convert Excel Charts to PDF using PDFWriter (HTM)
• How to convert all the PPTs in a folder to PDF (HTM)
• How to convert a folder full of Word documents to PDF (Acrobat 3.0)(HTM)
• How to open each a PDF file in Reader from an Access table(HTM)
• How to convert a folder full of Excel files to PDF(HTM)
• How to import a single page many times(HTM)
• Jon Beam demonstrates "How to add a link annotation to the current page in Acrobat" (HTM)
• How to print a PDF using the free Acrobat Reader (HTM)
• How to open a PDF and jump to a bookmark (HTM)
• How to merge all of the pdf files into one folder (HTM)
• How to print all of the pdf files in one folder (HTM)
• How to set the info fields on all of the pdf files in a folder (HTM)
• How to extract a page range from a PDF to an individual PDF file (HTM)

• How to minimise Acrobat Exchange using Win32 API calls (HTM)