PDF Viewer DLL?
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 10:06 pm
Hi All,
This is the situation:
Since (about) two years, I'm creating all my reports in PDF format, even when its primary destination be, to be printed. The reasons for that are pretty obvious (e-mail, Whatsapp, archive, etc.).
The 'problem' (at least, for me) is the following:
I want to be in complete control of the user experience, and when I use Activex interface to create a view for a PDF document, I'm not in control of the situation.
User has different PDF Reader versions, some of them has a broken installation with Activex not working, in some (a lot of) machines it is slow and (according to the installed version) the things that the user can do with the document (and the way to do it) are different.
My first idea is to use a portable PDF viewer like Sumatra: It is small, fast, simple and do the job, but being an external program, again, I'm not in complete control of the situation.
So, I guess that the ideal solution could be a DLL that allow to me to embed the document in a HMG window (the same way that QHTM does with HTML files).
Does such DLL exists?
Or...
Another solution that someone had implemented?
TIA.
This is the situation:
Since (about) two years, I'm creating all my reports in PDF format, even when its primary destination be, to be printed. The reasons for that are pretty obvious (e-mail, Whatsapp, archive, etc.).
The 'problem' (at least, for me) is the following:
I want to be in complete control of the user experience, and when I use Activex interface to create a view for a PDF document, I'm not in control of the situation.
User has different PDF Reader versions, some of them has a broken installation with Activex not working, in some (a lot of) machines it is slow and (according to the installed version) the things that the user can do with the document (and the way to do it) are different.
My first idea is to use a portable PDF viewer like Sumatra: It is small, fast, simple and do the job, but being an external program, again, I'm not in complete control of the situation.
So, I guess that the ideal solution could be a DLL that allow to me to embed the document in a HMG window (the same way that QHTM does with HTML files).
Does such DLL exists?
Or...
Another solution that someone had implemented?
TIA.