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open pdf file from a form [message #433982]

Sun, 06 December 2009 03:53

kuwait
Messages: 55
Registered: October 2007

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Hi

I've a button on a form and I wrote a trigger when button pressed to open a pdf file and it worked fine this was my code:

declare
   AppID PLS_INTEGER;

begin

   AppID := DDE.App_Begin('C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe Z:\BUILTINS.pdf',DDE.APP_MODE_NORMAL);

end;

The thing is this form is used by multiple clients and if a user has a different version of acrobat reader rather than version 8 this will not work how to do it to be uniform?

Thanks

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Re: open pdf file from a form [message #433996 is a reply to message #433982]

Sun, 06 December 2009 05:15

kuwait
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Registered: October 2007

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I solved the problem I used and made a .Bat file and called it in the form

Host('Y:\open.bat "'||'Z:\BUILTINS.pdf'||'" /C');

and it worked fine

Thanks

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Re: open pdf file from a form [message #437519 is a reply to message #433996]

Mon, 04 January 2010 22:05

djmartin
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Registered: March 2005
Location: Surges Bay TAS Australia

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Did you try using 'web.show_document'?

David

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Re: open pdf file from a form [message #452916 is a reply to message #437519]

Mon, 26 April 2010 04:27

dillango
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Registered: January 2008

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I could open PDF file through forms 6i. I am getting an oracle exception erro - 106500

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Re: open pdf file from a form [message #453431 is a reply to message #452916]

Wed, 28 April 2010 23:46

djmartin
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Post your code.

David

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Re: open pdf file from a form [message #453599 is a reply to message #433982]

Thu, 29 April 2010 21:39

Kaeluan
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Registered: May 2005
Location: Montreal, Quebec

Senior Member

You can try something like this

host('rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler c:\test.pdf')

This will use the OS setting for the file extension and will open it with the good program.

Hope it help

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