Installing and Configuring the Adobe PDF Library Maven Package This guide explains how to configure your project's pom.xml file and manually install the Adobe PDF Library (APDFL) Maven package for use in Windows and Linux environments.   1.... Read More

To add JavaScript to a PDF document, you need to set a PDF document's OpenAction to a JavaScript Action. The OpenAction value specifies a destination in the document that will be displayed when the document is opened, or an action that will be... Read More

If you would like to make it possible for a user to display additional information about a graph by clicking on that graph of scrolling over it, use the Additional Actions dictionary. This dictionary describes what should happen when an action occurs... Read More

A QR code can be generated with APDFL Adobe C/C++ interface from a string using the PDPageAddQRBarcode() function. This functionality is exposed in the modern C++ interface as add_qr_barcode(), and in the .Net and Java interfaces as the AddQRCode... Read More

Using the Adobe PDF Library, you can access the XML structure behind an XFA form field. XFA, or XML Forms Architecture, is a set of proprietary XML specifications for use with web forms. XFA forms are saved within a PDF document. If you want to merge... Read More

A Forms Data Format (FDF) file is a text file used by Adobe Acrobat to hold values exported from PDF forms documents. The Adobe PDF Library views an FDF file as a COS document. As such, it can be opened by the Adobe PDF Library, and can be used with... Read More

This article applies only to the Licensed Managed (LM) release of APDFL, which requires a license file (apdfl.lic) to run. Running the licensed managed (LM) release of APDFL in a Docker container might result in an exception, the most common of which... Read More

Overview After upgrading the Adobe PDF Library (APDFL) NuGet package in a .NET application, you may see this error: The type initializer for 'Datalogics.PDFL.PDFLPINVOKE' threw an exception. This message is the outer exception. The more... Read More

Overview Rendering a large PDF page at high resolution with Adobe PDF Library 18 can create a multi-gigabyte raster image. Users may experience long processing times, high memory consumption, application failures on memory-constrained systems, or... Read More

What is PDF/UA? PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) is a set of specifications for making PDFs accessible to persons with disabilities by imposing additional requirements over the baseline PDF specifications: Specifically, ISO 14289-1:2014 for PDF v1.7 ... Read More