Director and Acrobat 1

[cobweb]

Hi there:

I am trying to compose a cd with a Director movie; a component of which is to launch acrobat files.

I cannot find a way of doing this.

Being a complete novice I have acquired a few manuals but they are not helping.

Can anybody out there help?! I am using Director 7

Thanks in anticipation!

 

[kennethkawamoto]

If you know the path to the Acrobat or Reader, you can use the lingo command

open

:

--
open “some_acrobat_file.pdf” with “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe”
--

Or you can use BuddyAPI

baOpenFile

, which you won’t need to specify the path to the application:

--
baOpenFile(the moviePath & "some_acrobat_file.pdf" , "maximised")
--

Or use PDF/Impressario Xtra, which you can embed PDFs in your Director movie.

http://www.integrationnewmedia.com/products/