What I need now, and I will start digging the list archives, but typically I find it in the end challenging to put it all together -- and this may be simple: We could use the "whole ball of wax" relating to launching PDF's from revolution into Acrobat reader on any platform-- actually Mac OS9 and OSX and Windows will suffice. Rather than repurposing certain kind of material from a print world environment into a revolution environment, we just want to have a "rich" Revolution "Library Interface" that includes access to PDF's repositories on servers over the internet.
If I understand it correctly the algorithm is something like this
1) check if acrobat exists on users hard drive,
2) if not, inform them to download Acrobat Read and exit
3) Check if Windows registry is properly binding? (I'm not expressing this well)
4) if not, then write the necessary registry entry.
5) if pre-binding on the different platforms is "good to go" then simply download the PDF, save it to disk and launch it.
easier said than done. I believe there were-are some additional issues about launching or booting a file into a program that was already up and running...
Anyway, this would make a great "recipe" to add to others like XML Demo... PDF's are here to stay and will continue to be a defacto standard for data presentation. I think someone must already has this totally wired and functional. Possibly can all be done in a single script... if you have it, we would appreciate seeing that.
Sivakatirswami
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