Problem running Acrobat.exe from acrobat plugin in IE

Question

hi,
In another discussion, regarding signing pdf in Internet explorer, i am awaiting a reply to a very imp question. In the mean time, asuming that it cannot be done in a standard way, as we have used PDDoc allover the plugin and in IE PDDoc is only accessible in callback methods, i have tried to implement a work around, where i save the PDF to local disk and open it in acrobat.exe.
i do the following:
Register for PDDocDidOpen notification.
In PDDocDidOpen notification i save the AVDoc globally for later use.
then in IdleHandler callback, i use the globally save AVDoc to call PDDocSave() method to save the online pdf to local disk.
and in the PDDocDidSave() callback i use shellexecute to opend acrobat.exe to open the newly saved PDF.
Problem:    The shellexecute opens up acrobat.exe showing the newly saved file, but if i click the empty field in the PDF or press any button, acrobat.exe crashes.
I have tried placing shellexecute in differenct callbacks but no success.
here is the shell execute.
ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Acrobat 10.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe", "d:\\test.pdf", NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
I have opened a different pdf than the newly saved one instead, but still the crash exists.
Do u have any idea what i might be doing wrong.
Jahangir

Answer 1

Thanks for responding G Sch.
LOL. Well this lemming doesn't habitually rename .exe files (e.g. Adobe DNG Converter.exe) to a non-spaced alternative either! (Adobe_DNG_Converter.exe)
Still no luck...
*** Here is my batch file...
REM Copy and DNG-convert files from CF
CD c:\RAW_files
dir c:\RAW_files
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe DNG Converter.exe" -d C:\DNG_files
dir c:\DNG_files
pause
***Here's the DOS shell output...
<<BEGINS>>
C:\RAW_files>dir c:\RAW_files
Volume in drive C is Local Disk
Volume Serial Number is D084-58ED
Directory of c:\RAW_files
12/03/2008 10:29 AM <DIR> .
12/03/2008 10:29 AM <DIR> ..
11/03/2008 07:00 AM 10,661,632 _3110455.ORF
11/03/2008 07:01 AM 10,661,632 _3110457.ORF
11/03/2008 07:01 AM 10,661,632 _3110458.ORF
11/03/2008 07:02 AM 10,661,632 _3110460.ORF
11/03/2008 07:02 AM 10,661,632 _3110461.ORF
11/03/2008 07:03 AM 10,661,632 _3110462.ORF
11/03/2008 07:03 AM 10,661,632 _3110463.ORF
11/03/2008 07:04 AM 10,661,632 _3110464.ORF
11/03/2008 07:04 AM 10,661,632 _3110465.ORF
9 File(s) 95,954,688 bytes
2 Dir(s) 2,619,731,968 bytes free
C:\RAW_files>"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe DNG Converter.exe" -d C:\DNG_files
C:\RAW_files>dir c:\DNG_files
Volume in drive C is Local Disk
Volume Serial Number is D084-58ED
Directory of c:\DNG_files
12/03/2008 02:46 PM <DIR> .
12/03/2008 02:46 PM <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 2,619,731,968 bytes free
C:\RAW_files>pause
Press any key to continue . . .
<<ENDS>>
As you can see (a) Source files exist(b) DNG command line runs without generating an error (c) no output files in destination.
DNG Converter did not run.
If I remove everything after the command (i.e. the parameter list stuff) it fires up DNG Converter in interactive mode. Not what I'm after.
Any other thoughts on what the problem is?
Thank you.
Rob