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Hi Alun, I don't remember me speaking any VB lingo in my previous emails. I mentioned that I am programming in .NET and C# to be specific. I am proficient in VC++, Java too and have years of programming background behind me. I am really confused by your email. Do you mean that to get help from this test I have to pass certain test set by the more senior members from this list so that I can get myself established? I hope I understood what you meant? JIA -----Original Message----- From: Alun Greenhouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDFdev] Reloading Acrobat Reader Ocx in an application PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com _____________________________________________________________ >I am wondering why I won't get any help from this mailing list. Isn't this >list supposed to be a programmer to programmer help tool? Of course I don't >expect to get help from Adobe but as fellow programmers, if you know how to >use it, or have experience with it, why can't you offer your help? Unfortunately there are a lot of lame programmers out there who can't spell, wear baseball caps backward and can't tie their own shoelaces. These people generally program in VB and they fell into VB via VBA and Microsoft Office. (They also never read documentation - which is the biggest bugbear among denizens of this list.) This gives a lot of professional VB developers a bad name amongst Adobe/PDF programmers - who have to master PostScript, Java, and/or Visual C++. These guys are generally more skilled than most VB programmers and therefore (rightly or wrongly) regard their programming languages as more manly. Don't be put off by human nature. You can get upset by it, sure, by don't get put off. Speaking VB on this list is like speaking English in France. Sure most Frenchmen will understand you, but they will want to see evidence of some effort on your part to speak their language, however poorly, before they will befriend you. You need to develop a greater skill set that's all. Its no fault of VB, its just that there is a very real limit to what VB can do in the Adobe/Acrobat environment. You are really pushing a square peg into round hole with what you are attempting to do in VB. My suggestion is to tell your superiors that the blank screen thing you are getting is unfixable. (That's really why you are getting no help here.) They should either skill you up in VC++, hire in a specialst PDF developer, buy a third party control, or put up with the limitations of the PDF.ocx control. Those really are the only options. IMPORTANT - This email and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged in which case neither is intended to be waived. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening or sending them on. Where applicable, liability is limited by the Solicitors Scheme approved under the Professional Standards Act 1994 (NSW). Minter Ellison collects personal information to provide and market our services. For more information about use, disclosure and access, see our privacy policy at www.minterellison.com. To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
