Streaming PDF to Acrobat Reader

[Thrakazog]

Hi All,

I'm working on a program that creates PDF documents. Currently to view these documents we save them to disk and then open them by shelling out to Acrobat Reader.

I would like to cut the saving step out and just have Acrobat open the PDFs from an IO steam. From there the user could save the file if they liked and we wouldn't have temp files to deal with. Does anyone know if it is possible to Automate Acrobat to open a document from an IO stream like this?

Thanks,

 

[Dimandja]

I don't think you can coax Acrobat into feeding off your own file stream. The security levels built into that software make it unwieldy to "automate" as you describe.

But, for fewer headaches, I'd recommend using one of the many PDF packages available to .NET. Google reveals many such offerings.