Controlling PDFs viewed with Acrobat Reader in the Webbrowser object

[Kzin]

One way of viewing PDFs in VB6 is to use the standard acrobat reader to view them in the webbrowser object (i.e. using pdf.ocx indirectly).

My question is - if one does that by say

webbrowser.navigate "http://www.vbworld.com/bozo.pdf"

how can one send commands to the adobe plug-in to do things like do thing like hiding the toobar etc.


Here is an example of it being done with scripting http://www.borncity.com/WSHBazaar/News5.htm but I'm not familiar with that so I don't know how to convert it to VB6.

[Joacim Andersson]

I don't understand, why cross the river to get to the water? Why don't you add the pdf.ocx directly on a form?

[James Stanich]

I agree. You can then use...

Me.Pdf1.setShowToolbar False

[Kzin]

Originally posted by Joacim Andersson
I don't understand, why cross the river to get to the water? Why don't you add the pdf.ocx directly on a form?

Because on this bank of the river Adobe have fouled the water Joacim

Adobe do not support the use of pdf.ocx embedded in forms and while it worked fine with Acrobat 4 with Acrobat 5.05 there are installation issues with pdf.ocx needing an unknown support file to work in stand alone mode (not pdf.tlb)

[Kzin]

Originally posted by James Stanich
I agree. You can then use...

Me.Pdf1.setShowToolbar False

Its a little more complex too as I am using this with a custom acrobat plug-in. Normally this would go in the acrobat reader plug-in's folder. If I'm just using pdf.ocx where would I put my plug-in file ( e.g. myplugin.api )? Putting them in the same directory as the OCX does not work.