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Hi,
can you please tell me how I can set up a script that would open a pdf
file when a button is clicked?
Can I add a "Close" and "Print" buttons to the file being displayed?

Thanks.
Jul 23 '05 #1
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Xerxes wrote:
Hi,
can you please tell me how I can set up a script that would open a pdf
file when a button is clicked?
Can I add a "Close" and "Print" buttons to the file being displayed?

Thanks.


<a href="yourfile.pdf" target="_blank">Click here to open the PDF in a new
window</a>

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Jul 23 '05 #2
On Thu, 20 May 2004 18:44:01 GMT, Xerxes wrote:
can you please tell me how I can set up a script that would open a pdf
file when a button is clicked?
Can I add a "Close" and "Print" buttons to the file being displayed?


(chuckle) I had this image..
<http://www.physci.org/eg/dialog.jsp?text=Click+OK+to+print+our+468+pages%0D %0Aof+exciting+discount+offers%21&type=confirm>

Did you want to programatically click
'OK' as well? ;-)

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Jul 23 '05 #3

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