Accessing AcroExch in Acrobat 9

[Senecarr@adobeforums.com]

Is there something special or different to communicate to Acrobat 9 plug-ins through OLE now with the server sider DLL change to Acrobat 9 and IE7?

For example the following code works with Acrobat 8
50 Set oAcroExchApp = GetObject("", "AcroExch.App")
60 Set oGfrPlugin = oAcroExchApp.GetInterface("GfrPdfModify.Plugin")
70 IsDocNeedSaving = oGfrPlugin.DocNeedsSaving(sDocId)

but it is not working with Acrobat 9.

Thanks

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

I don't understand what your code is trying to do...Can you explain where this code is being executed and what it is attempting to accomplish?

Thanks

[Atin Wadehra]

Senecarr,

Please let us know which line is giving you the problem and what is GfrPdfModify.Plugin. Is it an Adobe plugin or created by you.

[Senecarr@adobeforums.com]

This is the VB side of code that is attempting to communicate with an Acrobat Plug-in. The code works fine in Acrobat 8, but with Acrobat 9, line 50 fails to get an object because Acrobat 9 is acting as an in-Process DLL when run inside of IE7 now.

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

You are talking about IE7 and then Acrobat COM programming - these two things don't go together.

either you are talking to the stand-alone Acrobat application via the COM/OLE interfaces _OR_ you're working with the ActiveX control (AcroPDF.dll) that is used in the browser. Trying to "mix and match" the two has NEVER been supported.

[Senecarr@adobeforums.com]

So is it possible to communicate with an Acrobat plug-in when acrobat is only being used as a dll in IE7?

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

It MAY be possible but it's certainly NOT supported. Never has been. If it worked with Acrobat 8 - it was sheer luck.

[Senecarr@adobeforums.com]

It worked with Acrobat 8 and 7. Both of them actual create an Acrobat.exe when a file is viewed inside of internet explorer.

So would there be a recommended way to communicate between an Acrobat Plug-in that runs for a file being viewed in browser, and another program?

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

Yes, with Acrobat 9, each browser instance is a new copy of Acrobat.

I am sure that if you can get a handle to the actual instance of Acrobat in the specific browser instance, you can communicate with it.