I am writing an application using Perl and Tk. The application will show a list of pdfs that are in a directory on the users computer. I need for the user to be able to click on these filenames and have them open in Adobe Acrobat. I have tried using the system() command but it hangs the perl application until the user exits all the way out of Adobe Acrobat. Since there will be a lot of PDFs to view, it would be best if the Adobe Acrobat could stay running and the new pdfs could open in the already running adobe. If there is an easy way to convert the pdfs to jpgs, preferably not using ImageMagik, I could just display those in a new Tk window. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you!!!

In reply to Viewing a PDF file from a Perl program by perlgrl

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