Adobe's plug-in is used to display PDF's in a browser. Since PDF is a standard, several companies have developed software for sale that you can add to your project that will do the job, including Adobe. There are also a number of open-source systems available.
You could also use the Word or Visio object libraries to read and write PDF files but using these large systems for just this one thing will require extra programming, also has license issues, and will make your program bigger than it has to be.
Just as you need to buy Office before you can take advantage of Word, you also have to buy the full version of Acrobat before you can take advantage of more than just the Reader. You would use the full Acrobat product in about the same way that other object libraries, like Word above, are used.
I don't happen to have the full Acrobat product installed so I couldn't provide any tested examples here. NET Toolbox. It will do the job for free. To use the Reader control, first make sure that you have downloaded and installed the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe. Step 2 is to add the control to the VB. Open VB. NET and start a standard Windows application. Microsoft's "next generation" of presentation, WPF, doesn't work with this control yet. To do that, right-click on any tab such as "Common Controls" and select "Choose Items Now just drag the control to your Windows Form in the design window and size it appropriately.
For this quick example, I'm not going to add any other logic, but the control has lots of flexibility that I'll tell you how to find out about later. To do that, add this code to the form Load event procedure:. Substitute the path and file name of a PDF file on your own computer to run this code. I displayed the result of the call in the Output windows only to show how that works. Here's the result:. If you want to control the Reader, there are methods and properties for that in the control too.
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Saturday, June 23, AM. The quick and easy way to do this is to use the web browser control. This assumes that both IE and the Acrobat Reader are installed on the target system. Just use the Navigate method of the control with the PDF filename as the parameter and you're there.
Friday, June 22, PM. I just tried to do this in an ASP. NET 2. I don't seem to be able to drag it onto the project. Is there some other setup needed? I do have adobe reader installed on my machine, and it comes up in a regular web browser whenever I load a pdf. I've tried adding project references to the adobe dll's but this doesn't seem to make a difference either. Thanks in advance, Anye. Friday, June 29, PM. Hi there Anye, the method i talked about earlier is for reading a pdf file within a vb.
Hope this helps Matthew. Friday, July 6, AM. I have the same question Monday, August 27, PM. Tuesday, January 1, PM. Hi Matt When I am running the command prompt of window the pdf or any extention of file name , it search the respective program and run. Thanks in Advance Rizvi. Saturday, January 12, AM. You dont have to call it 'AdobeReader' that's why it's being flagged as not declared.
In the space of 'AdobeReader' put the name of the Adobe control that you drag from the tool box. Monday, January 14, AM. Hey Matt, This is great. Thursday, January 24, PM. Load AdobeReader. I took this further with an OpenFileDialog and ended up just putting this in as my code: AdobeReader. FileName Now now to get the adobe object size to adjust to screen sizes.
Thursday, July 10, PM. Saturday, August 23, PM. Object, ByVal e as System. EventArgs Handles Me. Resize pdfOutput. Wednesday, December 31, PM. When I follow your instructions and add the adobe control, it appears in the toolbox, but is greyed out. Am I missing something? I have confirmed that the Acrobat reader is installed. Monday, January 19, PM. Thanks, Oz. Tuesday, January 27, PM. Is it possible to use this control in such a way that the PDF is saved in the resources folder or some other application folder?
Can you open it from an self contained application folder rather than a folder on the user's computer? Sunday, April 26, PM. Use the following statment: System. Start MyFile. Wednesday, September 29, PM. Hi MrChen, I tried this method but at runtime I get an exception stating that the class is not registered.
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