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Launching Adobe Acrobat
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From
12/01/2005 10:31:01
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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12/01/2005 10:15:04
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00976402
Message ID:
00976415
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>The name of an Adobe Acrobat file (withouth the extension) is recorded in the field DATA.FILENAME data type numeric.
>I want to launch Acrobat with the file open in Acrobat. If I know the filename the code that works is:
>! /n C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe C:\data\testreport.pdf
>
>Why doesn't this work?:
>! /n C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe 'C:\data\'+str(data.filename)+'.pdf'
>
>Acrobat launches, but tells me the file is not found.
>Thanks

It doesn't work because of the spaces. Use quotation marks around the complete path + filename.
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