Showing a PDF with fixed size and position during slideshow

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Using ActivePresentation.FollowHyperlink "Path\filename.pdf", "#1"
I am able to display a PDF file.

The problem: I need to control the window size and its position of the PDF
on the screen (uses Adobe Reader).

Is this easily acheived?

Bob
 
Bob ("flying_pig") also wrote:

Is this outside the scope of Powerpoint / Windows functionailty? or has this
ask been excluded in some way?
 
Flying pig said:
Bob ("flying_pig") also wrote:

Is this outside the scope of Powerpoint / Windows functionailty? or has this
ask been excluded in some way?
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It's beyond what PPT can do on its own.

In following hyperlinks to external files like PDFs, all PPT does is,
effectively, the same as you'd do manually by doubleclicking the file's icon.
Beyond that, it's up to the application (Reader/Acrobat/others) that "owns" the
file type.

I'm pretty sure there's a way to programatically change the size of the Acrobat
(but not Reader) window, but lately you need to buy into Adobe's developer
program to get any detailed info on this sort of thing.

There may be a way via the Windows API to adjust the size of the Acrobat/Reader
window.

Either of these would require code in your PPT presentation, meaning it would
only work in a full copy of PPT, not the Viewer.

One possible approach might be to launch an HTML file instead. Hang on. This
is twisty ... the HTML could include Javascript that resizes the html window in
the OnLoad event then automatically links to the PDF.

This would also depend on the user's browser security settings and of course
ANY PDF based solution would require that they have Reader/Acrobat installed.
 
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