M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
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
For one thing, don’t your backslashes need to be doubled?
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Space-Bearing Paths\Are\Evil.pdf”
Hi,
Hum, unfortunately, it does not seem to help!
On 11/6/06, Jeff [email protected] wrote:
filename = “myfile.pdf”
start #{filename}
FYI: be careful when using quotes with start: start "myfile.pdf"
won’t work because when first parameter is quoted it is the title of
the window. so this works:
start "" "myfile.pdf"
…sometimes I wonder what did they smoke when they created this…
Philippe L. wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
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?
Not cross-platform, but try this:
filename = “myfile.pdf”
start #{filename}
If it’s hard to see in your browser, I’m using the “backtick” not the
apostrophe, which will induce a system call. I’m assuming Acrobat is
installed as your handler for .pdf files.
Jeff