open pdf files from with the wxpython app

wxPython Users
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Hi All,

I have a folder with hundreds of scanned pdf files… I need an application than can flick through those files …change the file name and accept a set of meta data values against each file…

Will I be able to allow the user to view the file from with in my app… Any suggestions on best and possible ways of doing this…

thanks

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Thomas Thomas

phone +64 7 855 8478
fax +64 7 855 8871

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Thomas Thomas wrote:

Will I be able to allow the user to view the file from with in my app.. Any suggestions on best and possible ways of doing this..

We don't have a cross platform solution yet, but on Windows you can use the Acrobat ActiveX component. Acrobat 7.0 changed a some things in their COM interface which apparently makes it impossible to use directly from wxPython, but it was recently discovered that using the Internet Explorer ActiveX component and having it load the PDF works very well. See the mail list archives in the past few weeks for an example.

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Robin Dunn
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It's not the best solution but you can create a script to convert pdf files into hmtl on the fly with pdf2html-like-tools
and use the wx.html to view the result.

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On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:16:47 +1300 "Thomas Thomas" <thomas@eforms.co.nz> wrote:

Hi All,

I have a folder with hundreds of scanned pdf files.. I need an application than can flick through those files ..change the file name and accept a set of meta data values against each file..

Will I be able to allow the user to view the file from with in my app.. Any suggestions on best and possible ways of doing this..

thanks
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Thomas Thomas

phone +64 7 855 8478
fax +64 7 855 8871