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Viewing Acrobat (PDF) within Forms - best practices
Hi all,
Using Access 2003 - I have a form that I wish to use to view Adobe Acrobat (any PDF) docs. I built one using the Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX. I have two questions. 1 - I figured out that the "scr" variable is the path to the PDF you want to view, but I want to be able to make this dynamic. How can I bind this to a field on the form? 2 - Is this the way I should be doing this? I really want to be able to view PDF files from within the form, but I'm not finding much about it on these newsgroups or google. Is there anything wrong with this approach? TIA Aaron G Philadelphia, PA |
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Aaron G wrote:
Hi all, Using Access 2003 - I have a form that I wish to use to view Adobe Acrobat (any PDF) docs. I built one using the Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX. I have two questions. 1 - I figured out that the "scr" variable is the path to the PDF you want to view, but I want to be able to make this dynamic. How can I bind this to a field on the form? 2 - Is this the way I should be doing this? I really want to be able to view PDF files from within the form, but I'm not finding much about it on these newsgroups or google. Is there anything wrong with this approach? While you might be able to make it work (I played with this a bit myself a while back) the Adobe ActiveX control is only intended (and supported) when used to display pdfs within a web browser. Given that, you might run into any number of problems that have no work-around when attempting to use the control in an Access form. -- I don't check the Email account attached to this message. Send instead to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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Rick,
Thanks... it didn't seem kosher since I couldn't find much on it... any suggestions then? Would it be possible to slap a microsoft browser window on a form and embed it in there somehow? What about some kind of shell window on the form? Thanks again. Aaron G Philadelphia, PA "Rick Brandt" wrote: Aaron G wrote: Hi all, Using Access 2003 - I have a form that I wish to use to view Adobe Acrobat (any PDF) docs. I built one using the Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX. I have two questions. 1 - I figured out that the "scr" variable is the path to the PDF you want to view, but I want to be able to make this dynamic. How can I bind this to a field on the form? 2 - Is this the way I should be doing this? I really want to be able to view PDF files from within the form, but I'm not finding much about it on these newsgroups or google. Is there anything wrong with this approach? While you might be able to make it work (I played with this a bit myself a while back) the Adobe ActiveX control is only intended (and supported) when used to display pdfs within a web browser. Given that, you might run into any number of problems that have no work-around when attempting to use the control in an Access form. -- I don't check the Email account attached to this message. Send instead to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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Aaron G wrote:
Rick, Thanks... it didn't seem kosher since I couldn't find much on it... any suggestions then? Would it be possible to slap a microsoft browser window on a form and embed it in there somehow? What about some kind of shell window on the form? Have you tried just setting the src property in the form's current event? -- I don't check the Email account attached to this message. Send instead to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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Rick,
That worked! Thanks. Aaron G Philadelphia, PA "Rick Brandt" wrote: Aaron G wrote: Rick, Thanks... it didn't seem kosher since I couldn't find much on it... any suggestions then? Would it be possible to slap a microsoft browser window on a form and embed it in there somehow? What about some kind of shell window on the form? Have you tried just setting the src property in the form's current event? -- I don't check the Email account attached to this message. Send instead to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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