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Re: Embedding PDF fails with Adobe Reader 7 in IE

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From: Lawrence Bansbach
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 
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> 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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