Mike,

>Yes, its a great gift! Now I have another question but possibly I should start a new thread. Anyway I will ask you first.

You might want to do that anyway, some Acrobat experts would be able to help better.

>I have this thing bringing up .pdf brochures by pushing a button under the product picture. The user can go from product to product with Back/Next buttons. I have discovered that each view of a .pdf file requires a new initiation of Adobe Acrobat. But if I launch Adobe Acrobat from its icon and minimize it on the task bar, then the display of the .pdf files is almost instantenous for each product because Adobe is already alive.

Wow another reason to hate Acrobat. *L* I hate the fact it stays in memory, hogging quite a lot of it, after you've closed the window displaying the document. It's load time also sucks. I actually go to task manager and terminate the darned thing after finishing the pdf view. I'll have to do some experimenting and see if I see the same thing.

>Do you know if there is some way of launching Adobe Acrobat progamatically so that it already alive before the user starts calling for the .pdf files?

Have you tried GetObject()?