Hi Sergey,
At least on the old Macs I used to open pdf files by simply sending an
Apple Event to open a particular file type with its assigned application.
It is something like programmatically double clicking the file icon which
opens the Acrobat Reader in case of a pdf resource.
I the Classic M
Sergey,
You can use an ActiveX control. I am using Acrobat Reader 6.0, but I
think that Acrobat Reader 5.0 should have an ActiveX control as well.
If not then download Acrobat Reader 6.0. You can use this ActiveX
control to open and view the PDF through a container on a LabVIEW front
panel.
How
If you know the full path to your manual, then you can use the string
"CMD.EXE /C C:\The\Full\Path\To\YourFile.pdf". This is like typing the path
into the command prompt program. Windows (at least 2000) will try to open
the file with whatever program is associated with the extention.
If you don't
Sergey Liberman wrote:
> I am trying to open an Adobe Acrobat document (a manual for my program) from
> a LabVIEW program that will be deployed on a customer's computer. I was able
> to do it using System Exec with a command line like
>
> "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\AcroRd32.exe" "C:\Man
