[AccessD] Back to Web Browser ActiveX

I have used the web browser activeX just recently.  I spent hours trying to automate it.  In the end 
I failed, I just use it as a control on a form.  Sigh.  It works but...

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 2/20/2012 9:28 AM, Tony Septav wrote:
> Hey All
> If there is anyone wanting to allow their client to view PDF files in a form
> in an application I highly recommend using the Web Browser ActiveX control.
> So far I haven't run into any problems (not saying there aren't any,
> but....).
>
> Also as an aside I was trying to find a way to allow the client to convert a
> file to a PDF if they didn't own a full blown copy of Adobe. One of those
> problems, if not, how to solve it. I found LeadTools EPrint $99 (actual I
> had purchased one of the first versions of the program years ago, and forgot
> about it, ahhh old age). It installs on the user;'s machine as a printer
> driver (it converts almost anything you can print to a PDF). The thing that
> I really like is they have an option that let's you annotate a PDF file.
>
> Tony Septav
> Nanaimo, BC
> Canada