Depends how you deploy your app; with a decent installer it's really not a concern (FoxInCloud installs PDF-X viewer as a redistributable).

Let me know if you use InstallShield, I'll share my script.


>Thanks for the info. I have also looked at some other OLEcontrol PDF readers, including Foxit, but they usually have a dll that depends on the installation of the software. So I would need to install the foxit reader at the clients computer, and that would be too much trouble.
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>I will give it a try. Have not seen the attachment however.
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>>As you can hardly predict which PDF reader Internet Explorer or Edge will use to embed the PDF, you may want add a PDF reader OLEcontrol in your form instead, such as PDFxChange viewer (royalty free, included in FoxInCloud's base classes).
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>>Attached is the "PDFxChange viewer" object model; unfortunately, I could not find a .search() method; maybe you could inquire further.
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>>update: weird, the screenshot is attached but does not show up on my end…
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>>>I have a form where the user can open a PDF document and it gets displayed in the webbrowser control. Is there a way to do a search/Highlight on the open document?
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>>>Or alternatively, activate the PDF reader's search dialog? Most users will have Adobe Reader set as default program, so I wonder if there is any way to access the functionality of the control that is handling the document in the browser window.
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>>>Thanks for any ideas.