O$: Studio 5 store & display pdf files

[Terence J. young, DC]

Hi Jim,

To display a pdf inside of omnis on a mac, you use the quicktime 
component to display page by page.

Under Windows it is possible without any difficulties to display PDF 
files in an Omnis Studio window
using the Acrobat PDF Reader control (ActiveX) provided by Adobe, which 
you can activate under
External Components. Under Mac OS X, there is no equivalent of the 
ActiveX PDF Reader component,
but you can simulate the PDF Reader using a combination of the Quicktime 
(Movieplayer) Omnis
external, a Picture object, and a set of buttons - the result is not as 
slick as the 'real' PDF reader, but
offers a reasonable alternative for Mac users

There is a tech doc on the tigerlogic site explaining how to do this in 
omnis 3/4 (TNGI0021).  I was able to get it to work in Studio 4.3.

terry




On 3/26/15, 9:57 AM, Bob Fiering wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> I use postgresql and use there bytea, don’t know the field type on oracle
> When the user wants to open it externaly, i write the bytea to disk.
>
> I open this on windows with:
>
> Register DLL ("shell32.dll";"ShellExecuteW";"JJCCCCJ")
> Call DLL ("shell32.dll";"ShellExecuteW";0;"open”;Path_to_Document;" ";" ";1)
>
> I open this on mac with:
>
> Calculate #F as $runapplescript(con('tell application "Finder" to open “';Path_to_document;'"'))
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob
>
>> On 26 Mar 2015, at 15:51, Jim Pistrang <jim at jpcr.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Hope everyone is doing well.  Foggy gray day here, but the snow is melting!
>>
>> I have a client-server app running in Studio 5 against an Oracle database.  The client is interested in storing and displaying PDF files, and I have a few questions I'm hoping someone can help with:
>>
>> 1) Can I store PDF files in Oracle as a BLOB type?  If so, what do I need to do to insert and extract via a Studio interface?
>>
>> 2) Can I display PDF files in an Omnis window?    If so, how?
>>
>> 3) If I want Omnis to display a pdf file externally (Preview on a Mac, ??? on Windows) can I do this from Studio 5?  If so, what is the syntax?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> --
>> Jim Pistrang
>> JP Computer Resources
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>> <http://www.jpcr.com>
>>
>>
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