Win32ole & Adobe Acrobat Reader

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Hi,

I'm trying to launch the opening of a PDF document from within ruby, under Windows XP. Adobe Acrobat shows up, but no document appears. Does anyone see the error, or maybe has another better (cross-platform) method?

Thanks!

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require 'pdf/writer'
require 'win32ole'

pdf = PDF::Writer.new
pdf.select_font "Times-Roman"
pdf.text "Hello, Ruby.", :font_size => 72, :justification => :center

pdf.save_as("hello.pdf")

acrobat = WIN32OLE.new('AcroExch.App')
doc = WIN32OLE.new('AcroExch.PDDoc')
doc.open("c:\<the_absolute_path_to_the_file>\hello.pdf")
acrobat.show

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Philippe Lang
Attik System

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Philippe Lang wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to launch the opening of a PDF document from within ruby, under Windows XP. Adobe Acrobat shows up, but no document appears. Does anyone see the error, or maybe has another better (cross-platform) method?

Thanks!

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require 'pdf/writer'
require 'win32ole'

pdf = PDF::Writer.new
pdf.select_font "Times-Roman"
pdf.text "Hello, Ruby.", :font_size => 72, :justification => :center

pdf.save_as("hello.pdf")

acrobat = WIN32OLE.new('AcroExch.App')
doc = WIN32OLE.new('AcroExch.PDDoc')
doc.open("c:\<the_absolute_path_to_the_file>\hello.pdf")
acrobat.show

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Philippe Lang
Attik System

For one thing, don't your backslashes need to be doubled?

"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Space-Bearing Paths\\Are\\Evil.pdf"