Enabling Typewriter tool in browser

I have a web application that is displaying pdf files stored on a shared drive. The pdfs are displayed within the embedded viewer in IE. All users of this application have Adobe Standard installed. From a previous post, I saw that I could get the commenting toolbar to display by setting Collab.showAnnotToolsWhenNoCollab property to true. Is there anything I can do to also get the the typewriter tool to be functional within the embedded viewer in IE? I also saw another suggestion which entailed "invoke Acrobat's own annotation handling directly, even in the browser", which I'm not sure I understand how to do. What would be best? I may need some other functionality such as flattening to be available as well.
Here's the post I was looking at:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b6f6da

If you have any sort of network/enterprise setup for your users (which I am guessing if they are all running Acrobat Standard), then use the Acrobat Tuner (Enterprise Installer Wizard) to put the Typewriter tool in their standard toolbar and then it's always there.

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Typewriter tool in browser?

This question has been asked a few times already but none of the suggestions fixes make it possible to use the typewriter tool when opening a PDF from a web browser. I know that it is possible because a colleague has her computer doing it. Her browser is loading Acrobat Std in a separate window (not a browser window). So how do you get the browser to launch acrobat.exe instead of the browser plug-in?

This worked for me:
Try: Edit > Preferences > Internet > Display PDF in Browser
Thanks to George Johnson

How can I extend features and enable typewriter tool in Adobe Reader

Hello,
I have forms that I need users to be able to complete and save, but they also need to be able to use the typewriter tool to type stuff in areas of forms that don't have fields. Is this possible? If I enable the typewriter, I can't extend features and vice-versa...

It's one or the other. Not both.

Highlight tool, typewriter tool, etc. disappeared + gone from menu

I installed Acrobat 9.5.5 Pro as part of the CS4 Suite several years ago. I'm a casual user of Acrobat 9 Pro. I have used the Highlight tool and Typewriter tool on many documents over the years. Many that I have saved on my computer. They have renderable text!
Suddenly the Highlight tool and Typewriter tool, and others, have disappeared + are gone from the Tools + its sub-menus. I'm a pretty savvy computer user. I don't recall that I did anything to change the Tools menu.
When I go to View\Toolbars\More Tools... the the Highlight tool and Typewriter tool don't show there either.
I reinstalled Acrobat 9 Pro from the original CD... the tools menu is still missing the Highlight tool and Typewriter tool, and others. (I say "others" because, although I may not have used them, I sense there were previously more tools visible on the Tools + its sub-menus
Can anyone advise me how to recover the Highlight tool and Typewriter tool?

This happens to all PDF's, those created by me or otherwise. The files are not protected.
You pointed me to a link as a possible solution: "To use the Typewriter tool in Reader 9 on a PDF opened in the browser, enable this right on the PDF using Adobe Acrobat Professional." => "Choose Tools > Typewriter > Enable typewriter tool in Adobe Reader." => I don't have a problem with Reader 9. I cannot find this option in my Acrobat 9.5.5 Pro.
Neither the Highlight tool or Typewriter tool exist in the More Tools menu.
I cannot select highlighted text that I created by itself. I can select a block of text that contains highlighted text within the block,however I cannot modify it.
If I try to select a text box that I created with my mouse, it flashes a light blue shade very briefly as I left click on it, but does not actually select the box and allow me to access it.
This is so strange. I can't imagine what dumb thing I may have done to cause this.

Why does the Typewriter Tool stop working in an enabled Reader document?

I am using the latest version of Adobe Reader (9.4). I use it to complete Adobe Reader - enabled pdf forms. The typewriter tool is available but periodically stops allowing changes in the font and font size. These areas of the Typewriter Tool are greyed out. You can still add text with the typewriter tool but only with the font and size that was last selected. The only way to fix this this is to use the "Repair Adobe Reader installation" under the help menu but this almost always (>98%) requires a complete restart of the computer. This quirk is extremely annoying and no one seems to know what causes it or how to stop it. Has anyone else had this problem and is there a permanent solution for this problem?

Is the damage actual or only display (are the layers complete according to their previews in the Layers Panel)?
Does turning off »Use Graphics Processor« in the Performance Preferences and restarting Photoshop have any bearing on the issue?
What have you done for trouble-shooting so far? (Restoring Preferences after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved mis usually a good starting point):
http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2012/07/photoshop-basic-troubleshooting-steps-to-fix-mos t-issues.html

Stamp and Typewriter tool gone after 9.5.2 update??

Where did the stamp and typewriter tool go when I updated to Acrobat 9.5.2??

I found that the Typewriter tool only appears on the Tools menu if the PDF you have open allows it.
With some PDF forms I open, the Typewriter is missing from the Tools, but when I switch to a different PDF it reappears.
There must be a permissions setting in each PDF that disables/enables the Typewriter tool.

Enabling Commenting Tools in embedded mode

We have own plug-in which provides collaboration capabilities for reviewing documents introducing custom annotations with categorization based on standard Acrobat annotation feature. However Commenting tool is not available in post 6 Acrobat versions when Acrobat runs in embedded mode. I suspect that Adobe suppressed the feature to avoid competition from similar to our solutions. Adobe also discontinued earlier Acrobat versions so our big customers have quite serious problem now, because they can't buy newer Acrobat . . So I am interested if somebody from Adobe senior level engineering or sales reads the forum and can contact me to resolve the issue. Again if some developers know how to enable Commenting tool from plug-in when Acrobat is running embedded, then please share your experience.

I'm not certain drog is going to get what he want here. It sounds like he doesn't want to write a plugin to create Adobe annotations, but rather his plugin is capturing annotation information when the Adobe tools place and/or modify annotations.
That's not going to work in a browser unless Adobe changes what's allowed in the browser. If I'm not mistaken, Adobe tools will not create or modify annotations when the PDF is viewed in a browser. The user can always save the file to disk and open it directly with Acrobat (or Reader if it's comment enabled) to get access to the Adobe commenting tools.
Perhaps that's what drog should do - have his plugin give instructions to the user to save to disk and open directly with Acrobat/Reader. It's fairly simple to recognize when the PDF is viewed in a browser. If this approach is not acceptable to his workflow, then drog is going to have to re-invent the wheel and write a custom annotation handler to add/modify annotations.
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Typewriter tool Acrobat 9

UPDATE 2:
Please see attached simpl scanned file.
When I first open it Typewriter tool works just fine.
If I extract a page from it, not deleting the page, then the typewriter tool only allows typing text and not modifying anything like spacing, etc.
Update:
Just ran a test:
1) I extracted the entire document to help enable the typewriter tool editi features. Tested the extracted file and everything works as expected.
2) I extracted one page out of this new document. The problem re-appeared.
So what it means is that when I extract a page the typewriter tool gets set to disable editing features.
Strange?
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Hello.
My office just upgraded us to Acrobat Pro 9.1.3 on our XP- Pro.
The Typewrighter tool works unpredictably. In some cases you can type text in but you are not allowed to change its size, spacing and so on. The features are dimmed out. I am working on a file with multiple sheets which are originally scanned into pdf. What I found out is when the problem comes up, if I extract all the sheets into another file the problem goes away and then comes back up after a while, requiring me to re-extract the entrie document.
I have checked file settings and the security setting is always set to none.
Some of the things I am doing to these files (engineering drawings) is I am cropping a portion of the drawing and then extracting that page, saving it into its own unique file. Then I am undoing the cropping and moving on to other things. In some cases I am placing annotations on the files. I don't beieve any of these activities should be causing unpredictable performance of the Typewriter tool.
I have searched KB and all over the internet and have not seen any doscussions on this.
I would appreciate any insight that anyone can bring to us.
Farzad

Hi Anna.
I just updated to 9.2 and the problem still persists.
The test should not be on the extracted page/file. The test should be on the file the page was extracted from.
The bug is that the typewriter tool's features become disabled in a document once a page or pages have been extracted from it. The extraction seems to be causing the problem.
Can you try again to see if you can recreate the problem?
Thanks.
Farzad

Acrobat X Standard--Typewriter Tool

I recently switched from Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to Acrobat X Standard. May those using the Standard version enable the typewriter tool for Reader? When I select Save As-Reader Extended PDF, it only gives the option for Enabling Forms Fill-In. When I saved my document, the typewriter tool was not activated for the users having access to Reader only. Thanks.

Hello,
I'm sorry you're having trouble with Acrobat. Unfortunately,
these forums are specific to the
Acrobat.com website and its set of hosted services, and do
not cover the Acrobat family of desktop products.
Any questions related to the Acrobat family of desktop
products would be best suited in the Acrobat Forums:
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Typewriter tool and form fields

Hi there.
I have a long PDF which was created from a Word doc. I have added form fields throughout the document. However, there is one page which has a question then ten lines for the user to write the answer. I originally had a form field covering the ten lines which I made multi-line and gave a white background so that when the user types, it would just fill up the page. However, it has since been requested that the lines remain visible.
A terrible solution would be to use a separate field for each line (thus causing the user to have to press tab to get to the next line). After some research, I discovered the typewriter tool which accomplishes exactly what I had in mind.
Here's the problem: It appears I am unable to use both form fields and the typewriter tool within one PDF. Is there a workaround to this?
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With respect, how is the typewriter tool better than either a single multiline field or multiple single line fields? I would think that making your users switch between using the Hand tool and the Typewriter tool would be awkward, to say the least.
If I were in your position, I would continue to use a multiline field with a transparent background and adjust the lines to match the leading that results.
Does this have to work with Reader? Do you need to extract the form data? Does the general public have to use this form?
When you enable just the Typewriter tool for use with Reader, it locks out form fields. But if you enable the document for use with Reader, it enables both forms and commenting, and the Typewriter tool is a type of commenting, but Reader makes the Typewriter tool less obvious.
George

How to enable commenting tools in Adobe Reader in a C# application

When Iam using Adobe Reader, Iam not able to get the JSObject to set Collab.showAnnotToolsWhenNoCollab = true. Please let me know how to proceed enabling comminting tools for Adobe Reader
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What do you mean you are "using Adobe Reader'? Inside of a browser? Inside of your application? Stand-alone?
What version of Reader?
Is the PDF Reader-Enabled??
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How to set the same in mozilla? : 1. Go to Tools(Internet Browser)- Internet Options- Security

''locking this thread as duplicate, please continue at [https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1002512]''
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solved the issue, could u suggest how to set the same in Firefox pls?
Thank you!

''locking this thread as duplicate, please continue at [https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1002512]''
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2. Select the Security tab
3. Click on the Internet zone icon at the top of the tab page
4. Click the Custom Level button
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6. Repeat steps 1 – 5 for the Local intranet and Trusted sites zones
solved the issue, could u suggest how to set the same in Firefox pls?
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Two issues: Mail dotcom is now telling me to enable java in my browser and firefox has issues w/duckduckgo search engine. I am not allowed 2 instal DDG n search

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How can I use typewriter tool in Adober 10.1.8 version ? Even the option of "Add or edit text" is also not visible in this version ?

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