Displaying PDF - Help! Urgent!!

[Chris Carroll-Davis]

Thanks for the help on this.

Gordon - your code seems to work beautifully!  And Ken's point about  
the web link is also satisfied because if there is no app to display  
the PDF, Windows brings up a prompt to d/l software anyway.

Thanks again - a real life-saver!!

Chris


On 13 Sep 2005, at 18:17, Gordon Tillman wrote:

> Chris it's best to let the particular operating system decide the  
> best way to open a PDF doc (as well as other types of docs as well).
>
>
>> Hello folks -
>>
>> I'm doing a quick 'n' dirty menu front-end for a CD and need to be  
>> able to display a multi-page PDF document.  On Mac I'll just open  
>> it with "Preview" - but I need to know what is equivalent on PC.   
>> (I am a Windows dunce...)
>>
>> I have to do this tonight!!  Gulp!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> Here is a snippet of code for Mac OS X and Windows (95 through  
> XP).  You may need to tweak it a bit but it will give you the idea  
> - I don't have any versions of Windows older than XP handy to check  
> it on:
>
> Bonjour IM with Gordon Tillman <gordy at gordy15>.
> 12:17
> lll
> on mouseUp
> local tPdfFile
> answer file "Select a PDF document"
> put it into tPdfFile
> if tPdfFile is empty then exit mouseUp
>
> if the platform is "MacOS" and char 1 to 2 of the systemVersion is  
> "10" then
> openMac tPdfFile
> else if the platform is "Win32" then
> get the shortFilePath of tPdfFile
> replace "/" with "\" in it
> if the systemVersion contains "Windows 4" then
> openWin4 it
> else if the systemVersion contains "NT" then
> openWin5 it
> end if
> end if
>
> end mouseUp
>
> on openMac pPdfDoc
> -- /usr/bin/open
> get shell("/usr/bin/open '" & pPdfDoc & "'" )
> end openMac
>
>
> on openWin4 pPdfDoc
> -- cmd /c
> get shell("cmd /c" && pPdfDoc )
> end openWin4
>
> on openWin5 pPdfDoc
> -- start
> put shell("start" && pPdfDoc )
>
> end openWin5
>
>
> --gordy
>
>
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