Anyone know what code Adobe Reader is written in

[JeffreyWalters]

Hello everyone,

I'm totally new to all this and am trying to get a couple of questions answered.

Does anybody know what programming language Adobe Reader is written in?

I would like to have a minor functionality available to use in PDF files that Adobe Reader doesn't provide and am wondering if it would be possible to create a small program that would provide it. Kind of like the addons that you can get for the Firefox browser.

Is this a feasible idea? Or might there be to much of a proprietary issue to overcome?

Thanks for your input,

Jeff Walters

[morefood2001]

Since Adobe is proprietary software, I would say you might be getting into some legal issues by modifying their program. I have no clue what it is written in, so I can't help you there.

Perhaps you could look at other pdf software packages for the features you want. I know that openoffice.org has direct pdf save features, etc.

What kind of addons are you looking for?

[MeTh0Dz|Reb0rn]

Use subclassing, problem solved.

[TkTech]

You could do many things, including DLL injection with the detours library.
However, I would recommend you just look at some open source PDF modifying programs, like Scribus.

[JeffreyWalters]

OK, thank you for your help and suggestions, I'll move forward from here.

Jeff

[carly]

It's written in C++. Just disassemble it...

[MeTh0Dz|Reb0rn]

Originally Posted by carly

It's written in C++. Just disassemble it...

The language it is written in has nothing to do with the ability to disassemble it. Also disassembling it is completely pointless when trying to manipulate as far as run-time stuff. If you want to take that path you are going to have to patch the software which is about 30 thousand times more difficult than previous suggestions.

Disassembling it is a complete **** approach.