Adobe Acrobat PDF Control for ActiveX
Description
The Adobe Acrobat PDF Control for ActiveX uses the Adobe Acrobat Reader
to allow users of Internet Explorer and other applications which support ActiveX to view and navigate Adobe Portable
Document Format (PDF) files. Optimized PDF files can be downloaded one page-at-a-time
from Web servers that support byte serving.
Demonstration
Double-click the installer file (RDRX32B1.EXE) to install the Adobe Acrobat
Reader 3.0b1 and the Adobe Acrobat PDF Control for ActiveX on your computer.
Properties
URLName
- Specify the URL for the PDF file to be download and rendered.
FileName
- Specify a local PDF file to be rendered.
Event
None
Methods
LoadFile (fileName)
- Load a local PDF file.
HTML
The following HTML code sample will insert the Adobe Acrobat PDF Control
for ActiveX in a HTML page:
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000"
WIDTH=583 HEIGHT=361
ID=Pdf1
CODEBASE="rdrx32b1.exe">
<PARAM NAME="URLName" VALUE="map.pdf">
</OBJECT>
Additional Information
Acrobat Reader 3.0B1 is pre-release software which will
expire on September 30, 1996.
System requirements for this release:
- x86-based personal computer (386 minimum, 486, Pentium, or Pentium
Pro recommended)
- Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 or Microsoft Windows
NT 4.0 beta 2 (but not 4.0 beta 1)
- 4 MB application RAM
- 4 MB hard disk space, plus 2 MB temporary space available during installation
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 beta 1 (for Web integration using
Adobe Acrobat PDF Control for ActiveX)
Information about Adobe Acrobat 3.0b1 can be found on the Web at http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/.
If you have PDF files which you'd like to optimize for page-at-a-time downloading
over the Web and/or hide the Acrobat toolbar, scrollbar, and status bar
when displayed in Internet Explorer, you can download a demonstration version
of Acrobat Exchange 3.0b1 (which contain these features) from http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/exdownload.html#win32.
This URL also has a link to information on byteserving PDF files. If you've
installed the Acrobat Reader 3.0b1 with the Adobe Acrobat PDF Control for
ActiveX then install Acrobat Exchange 3.0b1, Acrobat Exchange will work
with Internet Explorer in the same way as Acrobat Reader 3.0b1.
Known limitations of using Acrobat Reader 3.0B1 with Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0b1 include:
- To use Acrobat Reader 3.0B1 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0b1
you must have the color palette in your Windows display settings
set to at least high color (16 bit color); when used with
smaller color palettes (such as 256 colors--8 bit color) these versions
of Acrobat and Internet Explorer handle the color palette in incompatible
ways.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0b1 can display PDF files embedded in
HTML documents using the OBJECT command. However, it does not currently
support the Acrobat Reader as helper applications (and no ActiveX Document
component for viewing PDF files is currently available). Because of this,
when you click on an HREF link to a PDF file in an HTML page
viewed with Internet Explorer, the Acrobat Reader will not be opened automatically.
Instead, you'll be given the option to download the file (you may want to
give it a meaningful name); then you can double click on the file to open
it with Acrobat Reader.
- When printing HTML pages which contain embedded PDF files, the PDF
file will not be printed.
See the file README.TXT installed with the Acrobat Reader 3.0b1 for additional
details.