Adobe's Acrobat SDK let's me leverage an installed
Acrobat Reader to render a PDF in my own application
via IAC. But it only works on Mac/Windows. What's
the unix solution?

I just need to view and highlight - not create,
edit, export, etc.

Choices I've come up with are:

- use Adobe PDF Library SDK (which doesn't require
  Reader to be already installed), but which does
  have per-copy royalty fees (anyone know how much?)

- use Foxit Reader http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_sdk.php
  again, has per-copy fees, and appears to be only
  beta for Linux

- use PDFNet SDK http://www.pdftron.com/net/index.html
  also has per-copy fees

- repurpose the open source xpdf viewer as GUI component
  for my toolkit; certainly do-abble  but feels like it
  would be a lot of work, and I'm worried about the
  compatibility with newer PDF rev

All I really want is what IAC gives me on Windows -
is there anyway to embed just the render window
from Adobe Reader 7 for Linux and control it
from my app? Maybe by leveraging the Netscape/Firefox
plugin (nppdf.so) ?

All suggestions appreciated.

thanks,
usman

Usman Muzaffar wrote:

> I just need to view and highlight - not create,
> edit, export, etc.
> 
> Choices I've come up with are:

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