Controlling Acrobat Reader with COM

[andres at corrada.com]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:17:41PM +1000, Hirsch, John wrote:
> "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.
> 
> If you can use wxPython it has an ActiveX control container in which you can
> run Acrobat reader.
> There is a demo called ActiveXWrapper_Acrobat.py which does exactly that.
> It could be worth a look.
> 
> Jon

Thank you Mark and Jon for the hints. I'll look into it and report back

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