Retrive and display a .pdf file

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dmtulsa

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First I'd like to say I really like B4A so far. I need to log on to a local domain server, navigate to a folder, select a .pdf and display it. At some point I'd like to just open a foxpro table to get the path to the .pdf

I'm sure I'm wrong but I see two ways of doing this. First is to do it all in on a web page which would not even need B4A, just a browser. Second is to do it all in an application using B4A. There seems to be pros and cons to both but I'm not a web page developer. I do have many years working with VB versions 2-6, PowerBasic and writing PIC mcu firmware in PDS & MikroeBasic.

I did search for info on .pdf's and found nothing on this forum. Maybe I searched for the wrong thing.

Thoughts & ideas?

Tanks
Doug
 
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dmtulsa

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BTW I'm not asking for code to do this. I simply wanted to know if its possible and maybe get pointed in the wight direction. I did see a pdfWrite lib but nothing about displaying a .pdf

I've only been using B4A a few days and have lots to learn. This forum is great with lots of samples and tutorials. I've been reading throught it for hours.

Thanks again
Doug
 
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dmtulsa

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Thank you.

That seem pretty straight forward. Second question is can I do this using the emulator? Not sure how to go about installing Acrobat reader for Android on a windows PC for use in the emulator.

Sorry for the questions, pretty new at this

Doug
 
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