Yes, this is an Intranet with very good security (large organization).
>Ok, sounds like an Intranet application within the confines of your customer's premises. My suggestion came from my experience where we created PDFs containing credit card statements on a WestWind Internet application a long time ago. Mangling the PDF name was the simple solution I came up with.
>
>Your situation is obviously different.
>
>>The PDF files are not on my server but on the customer server. And they don't use any random names; actually they use names that may remind them of the content of the PDF. For example, "BrokenFanServiceReport.pdf"
>>Thank you for your input.
>>
>>>Warning: Be sure to name the PDF files with good random GUID-like names and better to prevent hackers from fishing for the PDFs on your server.
>>>
>>>>Very interesting approach. Thank you!
>>>>
>>>>I have never used a Web Browser control. I will will have to look in the VFP 9 help where to find it.
>>>>
>>>>>How about a slightly different approach -- you generate an HTML file for the report, then launch a Web Browser control to view it. The HTML could have the links to the URLs of the PDF files.
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi Martina,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Converting PDF to images will be a manual work (I don't know how it could be done in VFP 9 code). And it would complicated the solution big time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It would be nice if the VFP 9 report would allow adding a URL pointing to a PDF file saved on the drive. And then would allow a user to click on this URL to open the PDF.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Another thing would be nice if I could open several PDF files at once. I can open one PDF file using this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>lnResult =Shellexecute(0, tcCommand, tcFileName, tcParameter,tcDirectory,tnShowCommand)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Where the tcFilename is the PDF file name.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>PDF is very complex and many PDF's features VFP doesn't support.
>>>>>>>May be will better convert each PDF page to image and put to report.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>MartinaJ
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Is there a way to import some PDF files into VFP 9 report? Along with some other fields (e.g. date when PDF was added to a table)?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>TIA
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