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Chris,
Keep in mind that the SDK provides a information about the IAC and plug-in interfaces built into the Acrobat products. By playing with the unsupported pdf.ocx, you are actually connecting through an undocumented and unsupported interface to a part of the Acrobat Reader package.
You have a few choices. Adding text to a document cannot be done with Reader, so that leaves one of the other Acrobat products. JavaScript, I believe, can add a text annotation, if you want to explore that route. A plug-in to any of the Acrobat products (full, Standard, Professional) except Adobe Reader could add text. That is the route I would suggest. You could instead license the PDF Library from Adobe (which won't happen unless you have six figures to spend), or you could license a third-party PDF library.
You can go the third-party library route. You can write a plug-in for Acrobat, but then all of your users will need a purchased version of Acrobat (not Adobe Reader). I've been writing plug-ins forever, but someone else will have to comment on whether there is an IAC interface that would allow you to send JavaScript commands to Acrobat (again, not the free Adobe Reader). If so, you could use VB to send the JavaScript commands that will add text annotations to the PDF.
Regards, Dan-Ari
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