Opening a PDF with Javascript

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  12 years ago

  by ill_comms

  Hayden Fisher

  New Zealand, New Zealand

  Joined 17 years ago

  Hi, I've been trying to get the following code to work, it accesses what kind of PDF Reader the computer has and then should load it in the appropriate reader. The start load word and excel documents just fine in the applications I would like PDFs to do the same. This is in IE only.
  If someone can give me some help I would really appreciate it!

  
     function open_document()
     {
        var document_object = "c:\documents\userguide.pdf";
        var extension = "pdf";
      
      if (extension == "csv" || extension == "xls")
      {
       var xlApp = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
       xlApp.Visible = 'True';
       var wb = xlApp.Workbooks;
       wb.Open(document_object.path);
      }
  
      if (extension == "txt" || extension == "doc")
      {
       var wdApp = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application");
       wdApp.Visible = 'True';
       var wdDoc = wdApp.Documents;
       wdDoc.Open(document_object.path);
      }
  
      if (extension == "pdf")
      {
       var isInstalled = false;
       var version = null;
       if (window.ActiveXObject)
       {
        var control = null;
        try
        {
         // AcroPDF.PDF is used by version 7 and later
         control_text = "AcroPDF.PDF";
         control = new ActiveXObject(control_text);
        }
        catch (e)
        {
         // Do nothing
        }
        if (!control)
        {
         try
         {
          // PDF.PdfCtrl is used by version 6 and earlier
          control_text = "PDF.PdfCtrl";
          control = new ActiveXObject(control_text);
         }
         catch (e)
         {
          return;
         }
        }
        if (control)
        {
         isInstalled = true;
         version = control.GetVersions().split(",");
         version = version[0].split("=");
         version = parseFloat(version[1]);
         
         /*************************************************************************************
         ********    SHOULD LOAD THE READER AND PDF HERE            *********
         *************************************************************************************/
        }
        else
        {
         alert("Could not find recent version of Adobe PDF Reader on this machine. Please install and try again");
        }
       }
      }
     }

   
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