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[steeld]

Has anybody got this to work under VSD5? I am trying the supplied example and adding the lines

#DEFINE COMMAND,PDF
#DEFINE FUNCTION,PDF

but the example fails with 'Error in external command or function' when it hits the PDF OPEN line. This will happen with any PDF file, not just the license.pdf file (which is on the correct path anyway). The DLL is no longer supported so I guess that it is now quite old and may be an OS issue (I am running WinXP SP2).

I'd be interested to know if anybody has got this working.

Thanks

[Hooligan]

Hi Steeld,

A more complete display of your source code might be helpful...

Hooligan

[steeld]

As I said, I am trying the supplied VDS5 example. Here is the code:

Title VDSPDF DEMO
rem Demo by eXtremesenses Software

OPTION SCALE, 96
OPTION DECIMALSEP,"."
DIRECTORY CHANGE, @path(%0)

EXTERNAL @path(%0)vdspdf.dll
#DEFINE COMMAND,PDF
#DEFINE FUNCTION,PDF

DIALOG CREATE,VDSPDF DEMO,-1,0,694,514,CLASS TVDSPDF,RESIZABLE
DIALOG ADD,STYLE,Style1,Verdana,7,B,,black
DIALOG ADD,STYLE,style2,Verdana,7,B,,white
pdf window,#TVDSPDF
pdf add,mPDF,35,0,616,374
DIALOG ADD,MENU,File,Open,Print,Print All,Print with Dialog,-,Exit
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Next,6,88,64,24,Next,,Style1
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Previous,6,158,64,24,Previous,,Style1
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Last,6,228,64,24,Last,,Style1
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,First,6,296,64,24,First,,Style1
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,ForwardS,6,364,64,24,ForwardS,,Style1
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Backws,6,432,64,24,Backws,,Style1
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Hidetool,6,608,64,24,Hidetool,,Style1
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Showtool,6,608,64,24,Showtool,,Style1

DIALOG HIDE,Showtool

DIALOG SHOW


pdf open,mPDF,@path(%0)license.pdf

:resize
PDF setpos,mPDF,35,0,@diff(@dlgpos(,W),0),@diff(@dlgpos(,H),35)

:Evloop
wait event
goto @event()

:OpenMENU
%F = @filedlg("PDF files (*.pdf)|*.pdf",Load)
if @ok()
pdf open,mPDF,%f


end

goto evloop
:NextBUTTON
pdf GOTONEXTPAGE,mPDF
goto evloop
:PreviousBUTTON
pdf GOTOPREVIOUSPAGE,mPDF
goto evloop

:LastBUTTON
pdf GOTOLASTPAGE,mPDF
goto evloop
:FirstBUTTON
pdf GOTOFIRSTPAGE,mPDF
goto evloop
:BackwsBUTTON
pdf GOBACKWARDSTACK,mPDF
goto evloop
:ForwardsBUTTON
pdf GOFORWARDSTACK,mPDF
goto evloop
:PrintMENU
pdf PRINT,mPDF
goto evloop
:Print AllMENU
pdf PRINTALL,mPDF
goto evloop

:Print with DialogMENU
pdf PRINTWITHDIALOG,mPDF
goto evloop


:HidetoolBUTTON
%%toolbaroff = @pdf(toolbaroff,mPDF)
DIALOG HIDE,Hidetool
DIALOG SHOW,ShowTool
goto evloop
:ShowtoolBUTTON
%%toolbaron = @pdf(toolbaron,mPDF)
DIALOG SHOW,Hidetool
DIALOG HIDE,ShowTool
goto evloop

:error
option errortrap
warn Error @error(E) at line @error(N)!

:exitMENU
:close
rem The following line must be in your CLOSE function of your VDS APP or
rem the PDF engine will not be freed from memory and can have side effects
rem on Windows.
pdf REMOVE,mPDF

exit

[Skit3000]

Hello David,

I just ran the example provided with VDSPDF without any problems after adding the two #define lines. I am running Windows XP SP2 and have Adobe Reader 6.0 installed. Please note you need Adobe Reader 4.0 or higher for the software to work. A (too) new version might also cause these problems if Adobe's intern code has changed.

Just to check if the DLL you are using isn't damaged, try these lines of code

[steeld]

Interestingly, Windows reports the file version as being 1.2.0.0 while the @PDF(VERSION) function returns 1.0 ....

So, the DLL is being loaded and appears to work - it's the PDF OPEN that doesn't work and that's pretty fundamental to an add-on that claims to work with PDF files.

[steeld]

>A (too) new version might also cause these problems if Adobe's intern code has changed.

Thank you skit3000. Maybe you are right - I am using the full Adobe CS2 suite complete with Acrobat Professional 7.0. Maybe it's just not compatible with more recent versions.

[marty]

Hi I am the author of VDSPDF and would like to tell you that its been tested with Adobe 6.0 and LOWER. I dont 7.0 here.

Like Skit said it might be something in the ActiveX of 7.0 that changed.

I dont plan to update the DLL either. Sorry.

[steeld]

OK Marty, thanks. I knew that you had no plans to update this but I was checking to make sure that I wasn't doing anything stupid.

[jwfv]

I have Acrobat Reader 7 and the example does not work for me either. (Acrobat Reader 7 is MUCH faster and smoother than Acrobat Reader 6, by the way - if anyone is thinking of upgrading.)

I use PDFs in some applications and I open them via the VDS browser element, or the VDSSurfx browser. Each has different advantages in different situations.

They work very well for my purposes - perhaps for yours as well.