There is a relative simple solution. From within your client, just GET the PDF and save it to a temp file. Then launch Acrobat passing it the name of that temp file.
Ingo > Hello All! > > I'm having a rather difficult time trying to figure out how to open a PDF > document (or any document for that matter) from the webdav server once I > have browsed out to it with an applet/standalone client I have created, and > I would appreciate any ideas which anyone can think of. > > What I was originally planning on doing was doing a system call on acrobat > and giving it the url as a parameter, apparently this only works with > non-secured servers because even if I try to open the url from within the > Acrobat (version 5 or 6) program I get back and "authorization error" > dialog. > > The second thing I have tried is to open the url in a browser such as > Internet explorer...ie brings up a save or open dialog box, but for some > reason it doesn't actually give me the pdf document back. If I type the > same URL in Netscape, the document loads...but I really can't expect that > everyone will install Netscape to use the product. > > Apologies if this is a little scrambled...I've been working on this for > quite some time now, and it's late :). > > Thanks in advance for any input you might have!!! I'll post a solution when > I find it. > > --Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
