Hello all
For my own amusement I am writing a program in VB6 on XP SP2, for part of which I would like to display pdf files within the program, preferably in thumbnails, then select the file and open it in an external pdf viewer probably using ShellExecute. I have looked on the net but only found ocxs to create pdfs, which I do not want, only a viewer, and apart from that they have to be paid for. Since my program will be purely for my own use I do not want to have to pay for anything.
From suggestions that I have seen I tried the pdf.ocx that came with Acrobat Reader 5, adding to the project and placing on a form, then loading a file with
pdf1.loadfile '.........'
When this statement is reached I get a dialog stating
Could not find Acrobat External Window Handler.
can anyone advise me ?
TIA
Stuart
VB PDF Viewer control. Sample VB code for using PDFTron SDK's PDF viewer control in a basic project. This sample uses a number of built-in features from PDFViewCtrl to open PDF files, implement document navigation, text highlighting, markup, and editing. VB6 - PDF viewer with continuous scrolling Step 1: To install the.NET PDF Viewer Pro SDK, begin by launching the setup file ( dotnetpdfviewerprosdksetup.exe ). Select the desired installation folder for the.NET PDF Viewer SPro DK and continue with the installation on your development computer.
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