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We call Acrobat Reader directly. That works fine. I'm not sure what's up
with I.E. but, you have to have Acrobat Reader installed anyway, loading the
PDF into the web browser adds no funtionality, so why not open Acrobat
Reader and leave the web browser alone?
Thus, I'm with Bill . . . <vbg>.
Cheers,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michele Davis [SMTP:michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com]
> > Bill Swallow wrote: My advice: Have the help launch the PDF without a
> new
> > browser window. Just target Acrobat Reader as the executable and run the
> PDF
> > name in the launch arguement. Your engineers should know how to do this.
>
> It isn't HTML Help, it's a .pdf manual.
>
> The UI manager doesn't like your option (ha, big surprise) and he states
> that
> he's using version 4.05c of Acrobat.
>
> No other comments except Dick Margulis and Bill? Any other ideas? Anyone?
> Or is
> everyone in the Minnesota and snowed in????
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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