open a pdf file? 1

[Zylph]

why wont this initialise?

on mouseDown
open "companyorganisation.pdf"with"xtras\acrobat.exe"
end mouseDown

i put all of the acrobat stuff into a folder called xtras by the dir, and it opens acrobat, but it dosent open the file that i have specified, says it cant find it.
could this opening the acrobat from there (or from the original source) or will i have to add a reader to the exe when i create it
is there a simpler way? something that i have missed?


have a great day

 

[jenmcclary]

I am having the same trouble getting acrobat.exe to open a pdf.

Shell "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe.exe ""path and file name here and yes keep all the quotes """""

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Use BuddyAPI open command:

baOpenFile(the moviePath & "somePDF.pdf", "normal")

 

[katherinep]

Hello,

I had the same problem. I used FileXtra4 from

http://www.kblab.net/xtras.

I had all the .pdfs and a shortcut to the AcroRd32.exe in the same folder as the Projector file. It didn't like it if I put the .pdfs in a seperate folder.

The code i used to open the .pdfs was

on mouseDown

fxObj = xtra("FileXtra4").new()
put fxObj.fx_FileRunApp("yourPathToThisFile\AcroRd32.exe yourPDFName.pdf")
-- 1
fxObj = 0

end mouseDown

Hope that is everything and I hope that it helps someone! If you have any other questions post a reply and i'll try and help some more,

Katherine