How to open pdf in labview

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How to open pdf in labview?

please help me

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[Norbert_B]

Hm, either you implement your own PDF reader using LV (essentially a parser for the file format "PDF") or you "simply" call a PDF Reader application programmatically.

Simply in quotation marks as you got to know the API of that reader application.....

Norbert

[BowenM]

Start here:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-10952

Unrelated, this comes up frequently enough (I seem to see PDF handling about once / week), I think NI should consider offering some native support for PDFs...

[Dennis_Knutson]

Is platform\browser.llb no longer shipping with LabVIEW? That has worked for years and years. I don't have access to LabVIEW right now.

[JÞB]

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@Dennis_Knutson wrote:
Is platform\browser.llb no longer shipping with LabVIEW? That has worked for years and years. I don't have access to LabVIEW right now.

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It is right in vi.lib where it belongs in 2013

[BowenM]

Unfortunatly, most of the PDF questions I have seen recently aren't simply "How do I launch another application in Windows" 🙂

Edit: What Jeff and Dennis were getting at in their own way is that you can easily launch adobe reader to display a pdf if that is your only goal.  See: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/68A6F2A00872837E862576940059C142

I am also quite certain you could find an ActiveX object that would just display PDFs as well.

[BowenM]

I played with it... there is an ActiveX control called AcroPDF that comes default with Adobe Reader.  It works fine inside of LabVIEW.