pdf preview in form

Question

is it possible to show a preview of a pdf in a  form ?

Answer 1

Hi Tekoko

Isnt the preview option enough?

- You can use a macro for that or vba code like:

DoCmd.OpenReport "My Report", acViewPreview, "", "", acNormal

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Cheers // Peter Forss Stockholm

Answer 2

no , i want to see the pdf in the form. the webbrowsercontrol is working for files on the inertnet.

but if i want to use it for pdf in my computer , the webbrowser control asks to open the file and shows it then in a browsser. so i can not see in on the form

Answer 3

Hi again

How to display PDF on Form

Found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UltWxgzgXPk

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Cheers // Peter Forss Stockholm

Answer 4

Hi Tekoko

Did my tip help you?

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Cheers // Peter Forss Stockholm

Answer 5

you actually can use the webbrowser-control to display PDFs.

some things I experienced:

• the webbrowser-control does NOT render der PDF directly, but uses the pdf-viewer set as system standard.
• in some pdf-viewers you can use settings to control whether a pdf shall be rendered inside the browser (still by the default pdf-viewer) or in the full blown program.
• unless you have a licence to distribute a pdf-viewer, the webbrowser approach gives you an advantage over committing to one specific pdf-viewer. ('every' computer has some sort of pdf-viewer, but not necessarily from Adobe)