Active X Controls

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Alain

Hi to all,

I would like to know on how tu use the Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX
with Access 2000.
this is something new for me and I want to learn, is this control used to
open an acrobat file ??

Thanks

Alain
 
This control only works with Adobe Acrobat 4.05 and earlier. Its filename is
pdf.ocx and it is usually found in the Windows\System32\ directory. Locate
the control by clicking on the more tools button on the from's design view
tools, and selecting it from the list. Simply place it on the form. The code
to navigate to the pdf file is:

Me.ActiveXCtl0.src = "C:\MyPath\MyFile.pdf"
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
 
Arwin,

I have look at the more tool and found only the following:
Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX
which is for Acrobat 6.0, the filename pdf.ocx I found in the c:\program
files\adobe\acrobat6.0\acrobat\activex.

Since almost nobody uses 4.05 I am sure there is a way to access a pdf
document from an Access Form.
I have tried your example but nothing is hapenning, I am surely missing
something here.

Thanks

Alain
 
I have stopped using Adobe Reader when they broke the functionality by not
including pdf.ocx in Acrobat version 5. They are now on version 7 and I've
been using Foxit which is also free and incredibly faster than the Adobe
product. In fact it is almost instant. With Foxit I can shell out to the
program, read the specific pdf, and be back to Access.:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

I also use another product (which is inexpensive, but not free) to create
the PDFs. Have a look at Win2PDF:

http://www.win2pdf.com

With Win2PDF, I can create my files programmatically and put them on the
server, or automatically email them out (or both).
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
 
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