MaxGui: Run a PDF document?

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Grisu (Posted 2006) [#1]

Hi! My app has a PDF help file. So I'd like having a link inside my gui which open it up. Somewhat like "Openfile", just that it opens the pdf reader and document. Is this possible? Grisu

Brucey (Posted 2006) [#2]

OpenURL "myfile.pdf" works on win32. I posted a macos fix so that it works in the same way on mac... No idea on the linux mileage.

Grisu (Posted 2006) [#3]

Oh... seems this stupid reader 7.0.8 hung itself when I first tried that. Now it works. What kind of macro fix did you make? OpenURL should work on Mac and Linux?

Brucey (Posted 2006) [#4]

According to the bug report, the Mac OpenURL was fixed. (not sure whether it's been sync'd yet tho as my Mac is at the doctors)

ImaginaryHuman (Posted 2006) [#5]

Check the code archives, I think somebody posted a PDF reader/writer module.