How to open a pdf file in vb?

How can you open a pdf file from inside vb?

What I need to do is supply the file name and have vb find the file (which I've done) and then open it using Acrobat Reader. I know I can launch the acroread using the shell command, but I don't believe that the windows version of acroread accepts command line arguments to open a file.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

NEVER MIND. Apparently it does take command line argument for file input, so I just used the shell command to launch acroread with the file name to open.

i hope you know the shell command

there is a dos command - start.exe , type start /? on command prompt and see the details

go to the directory where the pdf file is, let us say C:\pdf\mypdf.pdf, in the dos prompt

execute this command
start C:\pdf\mypdf.pdf

it will open the file, with its associated application, in our case acrobat reader

by this, you can open any type of file in there default application - mp3,wav,etc etc

so in vb, you can run the command from shell, that is -

shell ("start " + myFileNameWithPath,,,,,)

rajiv

Or you can use the ShellExecute API. It opens a document in whatever program is associated with it.

I'm attempting to print a pdf file from within VB.

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