Firing FDF files using Acrobat 7

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2 total messages Started by D219 Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:17

#737

Author: D219
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:17

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Hi,

I've written a VB application that generates FDF files. It then shells
out to these files using the ShellExecute API. This worked fine in
Acrobat versions 4 - 6. However I've just installed Acrobat Reader 7
(tried it on two machines) and this no longer works.
The file association is present for the FDF (if I double click on the
file in Explorer Acrobat opens) and I've uninstalled previous versions
of Acrobat Reader. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

Dave

Re: Firing FDF files using Acrobat 7

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Author: D219
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:13

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I've now got a solution, posted to me by Rog Walker in the Adobe
forums. It's as follows;

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This problem is caused by a bug in adobe 7 with the file association
for fdf. Go into folder options, file types in windows explorer and
find fdf. The open action (not open with adobe) if you click on edit
will have double quotes around the path to the exe. If you change this
just to single quotes it will start working.
Here is the incorrect one (something like this) 
""C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat.exe"" "%1" 
corrected: 
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat.exe" "%1" 

I hope this helps. We are desperate for an automated way to fix this
or for Adobe to straighten this out because its causing us a bunch of
headaches

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