[RESOLVED] Run another program inside a form

[RobDog888]

I have it on both my systems and I only have Acrobat Reader which is free. You may not be able to distribute it but you can include the download link and installation of Reader from the installation of your app.

If you have Reader 5 or 6 then its pdf.ocx. If you have Reader 7 or 8 then its AcroPDF.dll

Add the control to your toolbox....
Project > Components ... > check "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Control Type Library" > click OK.
(C:\...\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroPDF.dll)

Then drag the pdf control from the toolbox and drop on your form, resize, and supply a pdf file/path to the src property.

Option Explicit
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
    AcroPDF1.src = "C:\Users\VB-Guru\Documents\VS2005_Walkthroughs.pdf"
End Sub

[paulorton]

Thanks for that!

OK, I've put this control on my form and specified the src property but the file won't load. I get the Reader error " File doesn't begin with '%PDF-' ".

Don't tell me - Adobe doesn't like spaces in the path? I'll test this now but if so this is yet another thing to hate about Adobe and pdf files - grr!

[paulorton]

Nope - same error message with "C:\GP1-1.pdf" as the source.
Anyone any idea what's wrong?