>>>>Are you wanting to copy the file contents to the clipboard? Or a file, so it can paste into something like Windows Explorer?
>>>Yes Sir, I want copy the file contents to the clipboard.
>>>Hi Mehmood
>>>You can use function "FILETOSTR()" to copy the contents of a file to clipboard
>>>_cliptext = FILETOSTR("filename")
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>>His problem is that he doesn't want to copy the file's content as such, but an image of the file as it is presented in a PDF viewer. IOW, the PDF will have to be converted into an image, and then that image must be copied to the clipboard.
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>It's possible to do this, but it's fairly complex. You would need to launch a viewer with that file, take a bitmap / screenshot / snapshot of that window, and copy those contents to the clipboard, then close it down.
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>A pretty tall order I'd think. It might be easier with something like Foxypreviewer if you can save a report to an image, and the PDF you want to view is generated from a FoxPro report.
Why not read the PDF, paint to GDI+ and store the picture? A simple lesson ...
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