Closing Adobe Reader 7.0 from VB application

Question

Hello!
We have an application in Visual Basic 6.0 in which we take a pdf to make some changes on it.
To handle the pdf document, we use, more or less:
Set AcroApp = createObject("", "AcroExch.App")
set doc = createobject("AcroExch.AvDoc")
We have been using Acrobat 4.0 and it has been working perfectly. However, now we have also installed Acrobat Reader 7.0 and we are getting problems. When Acrobat Reader 7.0 is open, the functions I wrote before crash. I think that is because if an instance of Acrobat 7 is running, it can't be open another version.
So, in order to solve it, we want to close the Adobe Reader 7. I was thinking of doing:
Set AcroApp = getObject("AcroExch.App")
so as to get a handle to the Acrobat Reader 7. After it, I would close it and execute the code we have rigth now to manipulate the pdf document. The problem is that getobject doesn´t work. I guess "AcroExch.App" is not the right parameter.
Could anybody help?
THANK YOU.

Answer 1

>Are there any other APIs available for Adobe Reader?
See the documentation: "Developing Applications using Interapplication
Communication". The third paragraph of "Using OLE".
>
>Can we do operations like 'Opening PDF file, reading text, closing reader' with Visual Basic, if we have only Adobe reader ?
Not sure about reading text. I doubt that.
Aandi Inston