I've had problems opening PDFs from IE before. One thing you may want to try is using the embed tag from an html page. Example:
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000" STYLE="height:100%; width: 100%"> <PARAM NAME="src" VALUE="<url to pdf file>"> </OBJECT> Might work better. -Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: J H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Open Document with system call > > > 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Scope out the new MSN Plus Internet Software - optimizes > dial-up to the max! > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=byoa/plus&ST=1 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
