Hello,

I have an option in my software to open pdf files using  xpbActiveXControl. 
When I do this on computers with newer versions of adobe, it gives an error 
and will not open them.  The error is an internal software message im 
producing when and error occurs when creating the control.

I have been using the class id of "{CA8A9780-280D-A24D-444553540000}". 
Although this class id is somewhat of a blackbox for me, Im assuming that I 
might need a different code for newer versions of adobe?

Can someone assist?

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Scott,

I'm not sure if I understand you correctly but to open an Adobe PDF using 
the installed Acrobat Reader I just use:

RunShell( "/C START EXPLORER.EXE "+cPathFile )

Where cPathFile is the file with path that I want to open... eg: 
c:\somefolder\file.pdf

Hope this helps... works for Word as well as Excel files.

Regards... Jonathan

"Scott Krise" <scottkrise@verizon.net> wrote in message 
news:33123f12$2599ed19$12a34@news.alaska-software.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have an option in my software to open pdf files using 
> xpbActiveXControl. When I do this on computers with newer versions of 
> adobe, it gives an error and will not open them.  The error is an internal 
> software message im producing when and error occurs when creating the 
> control.
>
> I have been using the class id of "{CA8A9780-280D-A24D-444553540000}". 
> Although this class id is somewhat of a blackbox for me, Im assuming that 
> I might need a different code for newer versions of adobe?
>
> Can someone assist?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
>
>

Hi Scott
Try this "{CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000}", it  works for me.
Regards
Chris


On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:31:33 -0700, Jonathan Leeming wrote:

>Hi Scott,
>
>I'm not sure if I understand you correctly but to open an Adobe PDF using 
>the installed Acrobat Reader I just use:
>
>RunShell( "/C START EXPLORER.EXE "+cPathFile )
>
>Where cPathFile is the file with path that I want to open... eg: 
>c:\somefolder\file.pdf
>
>Hope this helps... works for Word as well as Excel files.
>
>Regards... Jonathan
>
>"Scott Krise" <scottkrise@verizon.net> wrote in message 
>news:33123f12$2599ed19$12a34@news.alaska-software.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an option in my software to open pdf files using 
>> xpbActiveXControl. When I do this on computers with newer versions of 
>> adobe, it gives an error and will not open them.  The error is an internal 
>> software message im producing when and error occurs when creating the 
>> control.
>>
>> I have been using the class id of "{CA8A9780-280D-A24D-444553540000}". 
>> Although this class id is somewhat of a blackbox for me, Im assuming that 
>> I might need a different code for newer versions of adobe?
>>
>> Can someone assist?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>> 
>

Hi

I never tried that, but I beleive you can find the class ID by doing a
few reading in the registry.  On my system, I see this:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pdf -> AcroExch.Document.11
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AcroExch.Document.11\CLSID ->
{B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000}

You can verify on a system with an old Adobe if the class ID match
{CA8A9780-280D-A24D-444553540000}.