Before Install

• Make sure you have installed Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.x, 8.x or 9.x, not Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat Standard.
• Make sure you have installed Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1 goldistributable Package

Download and Intall

• download Batch ReaderEnable(email me, and I will give you download address)
• unzip(you can use winzip, winrar or 7-zip) it to any folder you like

Run it

• run readerenable.exe
• click “Open” button to select the folder has PDF files to convert
• click “Save” button to select the folder that save the converted PDF files(pay attention, the folder must be writable).
• the process will start, during the conversion, please do not click the mouse or any key of the keyboard.

How to Register

• Buy it(only $39 per license).
• please click “register” button, it will pop up a new windows, get the machine code and mail to me.
• After I got the machine code, I will send you reg code ASAP.

A handy snippet of PHP code that can be used to parse XFDF data.
This past week at work I have been working on using Adobe Acrobat to submit form data. The value of this is that the form data can be reimported into the PDF form then printed all purty-lookin’. Anyway, Acrobat allows you to submit your form data in several different formats. One, FDF, is usable in PHP provided you load this module thingy. Unfortunately, the server I want to run the PHP script on uses Irix and the module is unavailable for Irix. Poor.

I then turned to XFDF, which is essentially FDF data all XML-ified. PHP has an XML parser built in, so I don’t have to load any crazy modules to parse the data. Unfortunately, PHP’s parser is SAX-based rather than DOM-based, so it took me a rather long time to figure out how to get it working right. Anyway, here’s the PHP code that essentially takes XFDF data (declare $file as a string pointing to the location of your XFDF file) and parses it into an associative array ($values). The array is indexed by the XFDF field names. The code below is not entirely complete since I snipped it out of a larger file, but if you look at it, I think you’ll get the idea. It’s pretty simple once you figure out the way PHP does XML processing.

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Contributed by: Tyler Butler