[kentck86]

i m planning to develop an application perform the task of displaying pdf document just the same as adobe acrobat reader. anybody has any idea how could it b done in vb.net?

[bambi18]

THIS WILL WORK.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("D:\test.pdf")

[kentck86]

bambi18, on 30 Nov, 2008 - 01:44 AM, said:

THIS WILL WORK.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("D:\test.pdf")

what if i m going to browse the pdf file location instead of specified it's URL...

[baavgai]

You can just include the browser widget in a form and point it. Haven't tested it, but it should work.

[kasbaba]

Hi,

you can also use a webbrowser control...add it to your form and then use the Navigate method...

myWebbrowser.navigate("d:\test.pdf")

this will open the pdf file inside your form...


hope this helps..


kasbaba

[kentck86]

kasbaba, on 30 Nov, 2008 - 01:28 PM, said:

Hi,

you can also use a webbrowser control...add it to your form and then use the Navigate method...

myWebbrowser.navigate("d:\test.pdf")

this will open the pdf file inside your form...


hope this helps..


kasbaba

well, this is not exactly i expecting to do. i m expecting to do the pdf open by using button clicking function in menu item

File>Open>browse to targeted pdf file

[Bort]

Use an OpenFileDialog. It's like a pre-generated Open window.

[kasbaba]

Hi,

I hope you were able to get it done.
However, incase you weren't able to do it then here is some code.....

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
		Dim Response As DialogResult
		OpenFileDialog1.FileName = ""
		OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "PDF Files(*.pdf)|*.pdf|All Files(*.*)|*.*"
		Response = OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
		If Response <> Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel Then
			If OpenFileDialog1.FileName <> "" Then
				WebBrowser1.Navigate(OpenFileDialog1.FileName)
			End If
		End If
	End Sub

kasbaba

[kentck86]

kasbaba, on 1 Dec, 2008 - 08:25 AM, said:

Hi,

I hope you were able to get it done.
However, incase you weren't able to do it then here is some code.....

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
		Dim Response As DialogResult
		OpenFileDialog1.FileName = ""
		OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "PDF Files(*.pdf)|*.pdf|All Files(*.*)|*.*"
		Response = OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
		If Response <> Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel Then
			If OpenFileDialog1.FileName <> "" Then
				WebBrowser1.Navigate(OpenFileDialog1.FileName)
			End If
		End If
	End Sub

kasbaba

this is wat i m expecting to...thx a lot......

now i m proceeding to other button function for my application...
i wan to have a button tat perform the function of zoom in and zoom out function to the displayed pdf document.
i have an idea is to change the current page size from A3 to A5 for zoom out etc...not sure hw to implement in . NET

Bort, on 1 Dec, 2008 - 05:57 AM, said:

Use an OpenFileDialog. It's like a pre-generated Open window.

thx a lot...i got it..

[magicmonkey]

If you want to have more control over the PDF viewer then instead of using the web browser control trick add the PDF Viewer ActiveX control directly to your application.

Right Click on Toolbox>Choose Items...>COM Components>Acrobat PDF Reader

Put a Acrobat PDF Reader control on your form and call PDFControlName.LoadFile() to open a PDF from your code and PDFControlName.setZoom() to zoom the document.

[kentck86]

magicmonkey, on 1 Dec, 2008 - 12:28 PM, said:

If you want to have more control over the PDF viewer then instead of using the web browser control trick add the PDF Viewer ActiveX control directly to your application.

Right Click on Toolbox>Choose Items...>COM Components>Acrobat PDF Reader

Put a Acrobat PDF Reader control on your form and call PDFControlName.LoadFile() to open a PDF from your code and PDFControlName.setZoom() to zoom the document.

hi thr, from this method, if i am generated a executable file program. since i m using the Acrobat PDF Reader library, is it this will cause my executed program in error if it couldnt found the library in the particular location?

[magicmonkey]

Yes the client computer will require acrobat reader installed, however the same condition applies to using the web browser control. You should place proper error handling around the Arobat control and notify the user that they must install acrobat reader to view PDFs.

[kentck86]

magicmonkey, on 2 Dec, 2008 - 05:43 AM, said:

Yes the client computer will require acrobat reader installed, however the same condition applies to using the web browser control. You should place proper error handling around the Arobat control and notify the user that they must install acrobat reader to view PDFs.

I had been using the dynamic library provided by pdfnet for my pdf document reader, now i am able to view the pdf files and add on the basic functions of a document reader.
now i have an issue, i am able to generate a .exe file for my application but it cant work properly without the .dll library file in the same path and the resource file as well, it there any way that make all of that into a single file? instead of i need to carry 3 files together to run my application well.

[magicmonkey]

If the DLL is .NET then you can use this neat little utility called ILMerge.exe. It will merge the exe and dlls into a single exe. Link

[kentck86]

magicmonkey, on 7 Dec, 2008 - 07:48 AM, said:

If the DLL is .NET then you can use this neat little utility called ILMerge.exe. It will merge the exe and dlls into a single exe. Link

hi there, i got the ILMerge.exe utility, but i have no idea how will it works to merge the files....