Latest Adobe Reader (11.0.07) crashes wx.lib.pdfwin

Hi David,

Can not help but can confirm that this happens to me too on Windows 8.1.

Maybe the dll's didn't get registered correctly, in X there is only AcroPDF.dll, but in XI there is also AcroPDF64.dll in the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX

Werner

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On 5/21/2014 18:19, David Hughes wrote:

For the past few days, I have been getting many user reports of my app stopping working (Windows 8) or behaving erratically (Win 7) and I have tracked this to the recent release (May 13) of an update to Adobe Reader - which defaults when first installed to installing updates automatically. The previous 11.0.06 (Jan 14) is fine.

With Windows 8.1, Python 2.7.6 and wx 2.9.5.0 I can show this crashing Python when I run wx.lib.pdfwin stand-alone (or its equivalent in the Demo). Stepping through pdfwin it gets into wx.lib.activex and bombs out on line 94 at

        hwnd = user32.CreateWindowExA(0, "AtlAxWin", axID,
                                      WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE
                                      > WS_CLIPCHILDREN | WS_CLIPSIBLINGS,
                                      x,y, w,h, parent.GetHandle(), None,
                                      hInstance, 0)

where axID = 'AcroPDF.PDF.1'

which is as far as my limited skills take me. Is anyone able to take this any further - or to suggest how to bring this to someone's attention at Adobe?

Fortunately I have got a workaround, which is to switch over to using my PDFViewer in the app's User Preferences.

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Regards
David Hughes
Forestfield Software
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