Opening PDF in Masm

[trodon]

I just searched litle about pdf files and asm, and cannot find nothing about that
is anyone even try to create simple pdf reader?
and can anyone provide me with some example sources, or hints,documents etc.?

[pro3carp3]

You can find a pdf reference here (1200+ pages):

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html

[ramguru]

I think it's just too complex thing to implement. , it requires damn hard work (image rendering,  jpeg2000, scaling, vector graphics etc).. 

[Tedd]

ShellExecute("acrord32 <pdf-file>")

..with correct parameters, etc :wink

[ramguru]

ShellExecute("acrord32 <pdf-file>")

..with correct parameters, etc :wink

actually:

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    fn ShellExecute, hWnd, "open", "C:\help\helpme.pdf", 0, 0, SW_SHOWNORMAL

Meaning no need for acrord32, and pass full path

[trodon]

Anybodu tryed to make something?
is there any example sources in asm?

[ecube]

They're c libraries out there that can work with pdf files, sure it wouldn't be that difficult to convert to masm.

[noxidsoft]

actually:

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    fn ShellExecute, hWnd, "open", "C:\help\helpme.pdf", 0, 0, SW_SHOWNORMAL

Meaning no need for acrord32, and pass full path

Hey, I am looking to open PDF files in my program and collect mouse co-ords from clicking on it, do you know if anyone has done this yet?

[Farabi]

actually:

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    fn ShellExecute, hWnd, "open", "C:\help\helpme.pdf", 0, 0, SW_SHOWNORMAL

Meaning no need for acrord32, and pass full path

Hey, I am looking to open PDF files in my program and collect mouse co-ords from clicking on it, do you know if anyone has done this yet?

Just like E^Cube said, you will need a third party library.

[sysfce2]

Hey, I am looking to open PDF files in my program and collect mouse co-ords from clicking on it, do you know if anyone has done this yet?

Do some searching for COM and OLE.  It is pretty challenging stuff though.

[donkey]

PDF document format (Portable Document Format) is a language based format that inherits from Postscript, it contains the instructions to render the document. You would first have to render the PDF document to a window then track the mouse position relative to Postscript tags in the script, not a simple task but obviously something that can be done with a bit of research. Most PDF viewers are fairly large and complex, you might try Sumatra which is a light weight open source viewer for examples of rendering PDF files.

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

Edgar