Controlling Acrobat Reader with COM

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.co.uk
Wed Jun 28 04:55:31 EDT 2000


In article <kkb65.30$Tb7.278 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Mark Hammond
<MarkH at ActiveState.com> writes
>"Robin Becker" <robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:Q38VarAdKTW5Ewcx at jessikat.demon.co.uk...
>> ...
>
>> I tried already with correctly escaped filenames and always got the same
>> error ie 'c:\\Python\\Installs\\test.pdf' got the same error as
>> 'gnarg.pdf' (and I don't have any docs called gnarg.pdf :)).
>
>Its likely that Acrobat needs a full-blown control container.  You may
>have to run it like the OCX demos in Pythonwin are run - check out
>pywin\demos\ocx.
>
>Mark.
...
Yep I reckon that's the problem. For those interested wxPython now has a
activex dem pdf doc in a window, but it fails for me for some reason.
-- 
Robin Becker



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