>>Hi,
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>>I would like to know if there is a way to open a PDF file programatically from VFP. They will be stored in a subdirectory on the server. I would prefer to not have the user to down load it and then open it.
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>>Thanks
>>Earl
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>If the client has the reader software, you can open it using shellexecute:
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>oShell = CREATEOBJECT('Shell.Application')
>oShell.Open('f:\mypdffile.pdf')

When I tried this all not much seemed to happen. oShell was created but nothing was visible so I tried oshell.visible = .t. that got me an OLE error. Any suggestions about what I might be doing wrong.