On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 01:06 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:
> I used Buddy to return the path of Acrobat Reader on the user's machine
> (if
> present) and opened a PDF with it. I tried different permutations of
> the
> path, and every time it would open Reader, but it couldn't find the PDF.
If you were using BAPI to send the open command, that's why -- BAPI
doesn't get the relative paths used in Lingo.
But there's also some kind of weird thing on Win that prevents (or can
prevent) Acrobat opening a PDF properly when you use an open {file} with
{app} command. There's info on it at zeusprod.com, as well as an Xtra
that handles it.
> The only things that worked were if I had the PDF next to the projector
> and
> didn't use a pathname at all
That could also have been:
the moviePath & "whatever.pdf"
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