Help with launching acrobat
Hirsch, John
JohnH at PHM.GOV.AU
Wed Jun 28 00:29:03 EDT 2000
>Hi!
>I am currently faced with a problem -
>My company has a windows product which needs to launch a PDF.
>Previously, we were putting the path to the acrobat executable into the
>autoexec.bat.
>This was fine, until some of our customers decided to run it in NT.
>My question is :-
>How can I query the windows registry for the Acrobat path?
>**OR**
>How can I use com to launch Acrobat reader?
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
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