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Article #604Re: Embedding PDF fails with Adobe Reader 7 in IE
From: Lawrence Bansbach
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:56
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:56
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Never mind. It appears to be bug in Adobe Reader 7.0.0 (and possibly 7.0.1). It works OK in the 7.0.2 update. "Lawrence Bansbach" <lbans@delanet.com> wrote in message news:0sWdnVn_9_j-lyvfRVn-1A@velocitywest.net... > Because SP2 for Internet Explorer 6 locked down the browser, to run > browser-based content from CD-ROMs and hard drives that requires > JavaScript and ActiveX components (such as the Adobe Reader), it has > become necessary to provide instructions for drilling down in IE's > advanced settings to allow active content to run locally or to add the > "Mark of the Web" (eg, "<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->") to > the HTML. To get PDFs to open locally within IE is impossible with the > Mark of the Web unless you embed the PDF files in a "marked" HTML page. > Any of the following works with Acrobat Reader 5 and 6: > > <object classid="clsid:CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000" width="100%" > height="100%"><param name="src" value="myfile.pdf" /></object> > > > <object type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="100%"><param > name="src" value="myfile.pdf" /></object> > > > > <embed src=" myfile.pdf" height="100%" width="100%"></embed> > > > > But recently I've found that if Adobe Reader 7 is installed, such a page > yields the error message "File does not begin with '%PDF-'." The PDFs all > begin with "PDF." The class ID for 7's ActiveX component is still the > same. What gives? Does Adobe Reader 7 require a different procedure, or > does it, unlike its predecessors, not permit the embedding of PDFs? > >
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