We don't want to show navigation bar, address bar, all other things associated with the Browser. We may also want to disable context menues.
>Why doesn't the web browser control work for you? If all of the controls or fields on a pdf form are flattened, they are all readonly...
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>>>When I put your code in the load of the form, it worked fine. I had to manually select the Adobe 7 Activex Browser control, but the form displays fine. We switched to the webbrowser control though inhouse due to the form stacking in Adobe.
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>>Hi Tracey,
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>>If you uncomment the OLE class in my code, you would get the error. I don't want the dialog to pick up class in run-time.
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>>Also by googling I found several free ActiveX viewers, but haven't evaluated them yet. We have a requirements here to be able to only view PDF, but disable almost all other functionality, e.g. no toolbars, etc. My colleague was able to partially achieve this goal by using JavaScripts and WebBrowser control, but we're not happy with this solution due to security risk..
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