Opening PDF files in IE6

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Brad McRoberts

Am trying to open .PDF files in IE6 on internal intranet.
Will open ok with IE5.5 but not IE6. Is there a security
setting that needs to be tweaked to allow this?
 
PDF files require the Adobe Acrobat Reader to be installed. If you could
read them with 5.5 then the reader should be still installed and available
for IE 6.

Check and make sure you do still have it.
 
I cannot create a new post due to an error on the web form that prevents me
from selecting a newsgroup, so I am replying to this one... this should
really be a separate question.

I succeeded at writing a Windows Forms app to write values into text fields
on a PDF, save the PDF and email or fax the PDF to customers, and then the
server team asked me to turn the program into a Windows Service.

I'm having a couple of problems related to removing windows.forms from the
project. The problem I can't resolve or work around is that the Adobe
Acrobat API may throw message boxes during processing. I handled this in my
windows.form app by enumerating all open windows looking for a particular
window title and then sending an enter key to the window using SendKeys from
system.windows.forms.

So, in trying to convert the program, I realize that I will not be able to
use this method (can't compile). I'm guessing that the API trying to throw a
window may cause the service to hang anyway, although I don't know. I'll
test that next.

Other problems I have had caused by removing the windows.forms is that I
cannot use invoke to return to my original thread. I also can't bind a
FileSystemWatcher to the main thread of the app. These problems I can get
around.

I hope that there is a way to succeed at making this program a service.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Geoff
 
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