>Della,
>
>Two questions. 1) I went to the site you listed and was not able to find ActiveX control.
>2) Do you know if this ActiveX will work with the new version 5.0?
>
>I got the activeX that came with reader 4.0 but it will not work properly in 5.0

Since I posted that message (in January, 2001), I found more information on the licensing of this control. After much research and a few conversations with the Adobe folks, I found that it is NOT licensed to run inside your application. For Acrobat 4.0, a suitable license was to get Adobe Business Tools (for every seat!) -- a rather expensive solution for the project I was working on. A quick check on Adobe's website shows that they've changed everything for 5.0 -- Adobe Business Tools is only for 4.0. So, I'm assuming that the licensing has changed...except I'm quite certain that you will still need a per-seat license for each machine on which your application runs. The free Adobe Reader is *not* a license.

Since then, I've moved on to another project, and I don't need to work with PDFs anymore, so I don't know what's needed for 5.0. You should probably call Adobe to find out just what's needed for licensing, and if you've got the properly licensed tool, it'll work just fine. Fair warning: it will take several people before you find someone at Adobe who understands the developer's perspective!

Good luck!

- della