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Topic: automaticly open pdf in acrobat reader

Posted By: lyborko
Subject: automaticly open pdf in acrobat reader
Date Posted: 31 Jul 12 at 12:10PM

Hi,

is there any function in TQuickPdf object how to automatically open acrobat reader after pdf document completition?

thanx

Lyborko

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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 31 Jul 12 at 3:17PM

Hi!

There's no pdf-lib with the described functionality.
Things like this you should do with the shell command of your programming language.
Then the same happens like doubleclicking on a pdf-document in the explorer.
If you've linked pdf-extensions with the acrobat reader then this one will open the pdf.

After document completion and QuickPDF.Free you can do something like...
ShellExecute(hinstance,'open',PChar('c:\temp\sample.pdf'),nil,nil,SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Cheers and welcome here,
Ingo

Posted By: AndrewC
Date Posted: 02 Aug 12 at 11:07AM

ShellExecute or soemthing similar is the easy option.

In C#

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("file.pdf");

In c

system("file.pdf");

Each compiler and language has a different method for opening a document.

Andrew.

Posted By: AndrewC
Date Posted: 08 Aug 12 at 1:00PM

ShellExecute came in useful for one of my Delphi tests - Note : it requires ShellApi added to the uses section.