On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Paul McNett <p@ulmcnett.com> wrote:

> 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()

I like the external viewer. No overhead and the viewers do a better

job that we could.

Nate L.