Displaying the full version of Acrobat Standard within another application

Question

We are developing a document management application where users can edit documents within the application. Ideally, we would like to display Acrobat within a Window's Form Control, and have the full functionality of Acrobat Standard available. We can accomplish this by using the Window's API to "stuff" the entire Acrobat window, menus and all, inside of the Window's Form, using the SetParent function. However, when we do that, we find that for certain functionality, we encounter errors. For example, the print dialog does not display correctly, and dragging toolbars around causes the application to crash with a memory access error.
Looking at the Acrobat SDK 9.0, the OpenWindowEx() function would seem the other alternative to display Acrobat Standard within our application. However, this only provides a small subset of the functionality that you get with Acrobat Standard. I've been able to re-add some functionality, like commenting, but not everything, especially options under the Document menu.
I should add that once we have a Windows Form control that contains the Adobe Standard application, we host it in IE so that it can display within a web application (this feature is built in to .NET/IE).
Is there any way to make the entire set of Acrobat Standard features available within a Windows application? Or a Web application? Some modification of either of the above methods, or a third alternative?
All the users of this application have Adobe Acrobat already installed.

Answer 1

No, there is no way to host the entire Acrobat application outside of Acrobat - only a limited set of functions are available in "external applications". This is by design.