Hello, friends!

I am stuck with a problem that I can not 'invoke' a PDF file from my perl program with Win32::Process(...). 

system("path-to-file.pdf");

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works well, but it is creates a console window (whereas I am writing GUI(Tk) utility) and console window is not desirable.

Following 

use Win32::Process;
sub ErrorReport{
  print Win32::FormatMessage(Win32::GetLastError());
}
my $procobj;
Win32::Process::Create(
  $procobj,
  "d:\\Adobe\\Acrobat 5.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe",
  "x D:\\WORK\\Documentation\\cd-writing\\perl-technology\\root-cd-tk\
+\files\\PSAX1250_IG_R610_Iss1-mp.pdf",
  0,
  NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,
  "."
)  || die ErrorReport();

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works okay on my machine (for given PDF file and path to PDF viewer, but this solution is even worse because I can not guess which PDF viewer has (if at all) user on its machine.

If anyone have an idea, please help me!

Warmest wishes,
Vadim.

In reply to How to 'invoke' a PDF file on Win32 by svad

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