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Using a type library in Delphi 5 generated from Adobe Reader 5.o, I have been able to accomplish much of what I needed to to as far as embedding viewing and printing of PDFS within my application. During testing I came across a snag in Windows XP. The PrintAll method no longer works. Actually what happens is a dialog comes up in a fresh adobe installation when the print all method is called and it asks if it is OK for a script to print all the pages of the PDF. The user has to click yes or no and there is also a check box about whether to ask this in the future. If the user selects to not be prompted in the future printall method becomes disabled. If the user never says do not warn me then the dialog-less implimentation of printing I have with PF>OCX on other platfors is gone in Windows XP.

My question is there a way to get around this shortcoming of the pDF.ocx in XP? The solution must work with Adobe 5 and 6. readers?

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Russell Libby

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ARW

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OK, I looked over the registry and you are correct. If I delete the key, the Adobe Reader is too stupid to rewrite the key, so the dialog always comes up unless they cleick the checkbox. Then printing stops working until the Reader is restarted because the answer gets cached. I tried fat-fingering in 2,3,4,99 trying to get one that would allow silent printing. Surely Adobe must be able to do silent printing whent hey want to allow it. It is just a matter of hacking outthe value or finding some otherregistry key that makes it work. Maybe some social engineering is the next step...

AW

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Not the solution I had hoped for, but a knowledge exchange nonetheless...thank you

~aw

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The Adobe version 6 has a OCX that they now says they will support to developers so we can hope for a update

Look at this forum there are som explaning what is changed on version 6
http://www.sedtech.com/isedquickpdf/?page=forum

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pdf.ocx

Poster: chicks
Date: 2004-07-13 18:40:25
Adobe is asking for feedback from anyone using the (currently unsupported) pdf.ocx control. They are actually thinking about providing developer support for the control!

http://forum.planetpdf.com/webboard/wbpx.dll/read?115318,3


Poster: chicks
Date: 2004-07-13 19:17:04
Try this URL if the other requires a login:

http://forum.planetpdf.com/wb/default.asp?action=9&read=42813&fid=3

Good information in the answers
I hope this can help you to adress the problem to the right gays

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