04-07-2014 09:05 AM
04-07-2014 09:07 AM
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
04-07-2014 09:19 AM
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...
04-07-2014 11:04 AM
04-07-2014 11:34 AM
@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.
It is right in vi.lib where it belongs in 2013
04-07-2014 12:54 PM - edited 04-07-2014 01:02 PM
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.
04-07-2014 01:49 PM
I played with it... there is an ActiveX control called AcroPDF that comes default with Adobe Reader. It works fine inside of LabVIEW.