johnf wrote:

> On Thursday 07 August 2008 03:51:01 pm Paul McNett wrote:

>> johnf wrote:

>>> I don't recall any control that can display a PDF file.

>> dabo.ui.dPdfWindow

>>

>> However, it only works on Windows, and not very well (it's an ActiveX

>> control that instantiates Internet Explorer and Adobe Acrobat Reader).

>>

>> Paul

>

> Right I forgot about the windows dPdfWindow. Of course I'm on Linux.

There are Linux tools to create image files from PDFs. You could do

on-the-fly conversion and display the bitmap.

Just an idea.

Or live with displaying the pdf in an external editor, using e.g.

dabo.lib.reportUtils.previewPdf()

Paul