Colin Law wrote: > 2010/7/17 Mamadou Touré <li...@ruby-forum.com>: >>> >>> All the ruby and erb code is run on the server. Javascript is run in >>> the browser of course. >>> >>> Colin >> >> Hi Colin, >> >> What I really need is to run the command system("AcroRd32.exe "), and >> not the system("del *.*"). so Maybe, I'll try to have it called by the >> javascript. > > I believe it is not possible to do it from javascript. I understand > that _you_ want to run acrord32 and not something unpleasant, but the > point is that if it were possible for you to do this then someone else > _would_ so something unpleasant. > > Why do you want to run acrord32 on the users pc? > > Colin
Hi Colin, I want to run accrobat, because I need to open an XDP file in order to merge it with a pdf. The only way that I see is to open the xdp on accrobat thus it'll bring up the corresponding pdf with all it's fields populated, and then I just need to save it. Regards -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.