On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 1:25:12 PM UTC-4, Naftali wrote: > It actually doesn't fail but it 'cannot open in protected mode' (see here > http://blogs.adobe.com/dmcmahon/2012/07/27/adobe-reader-cannot-open-protected-mode-due-to-a-problem-with-your-system-configuration/) > > I am using subprocess.Popen("AcroRe32.exe /n <file.pdf>") which is the > actuall adobe reader command I'd issue on the command line to open the pdf > (the /n option opens it the file in a new instance of reader). > > Now, when I issue the command straight from powershell, the pdf opens no > problem, but when I open in my script (whether a .py or py2exe) I get the pop > up complaining that the PDF cannot be opened in 'protected mode.' One of the > options is to open it anyways, which works. > > Looking into it (see the link in the first paragraph) my best guess is that > it's due to something like "JS-invoked processes: Launching a process through > JavaScript is not allowed with Protected Mode enabled." > > But my naive understanding was that when I give Popen instruction, the > command is handed off to windows and the called program is unaware of how it > got called, so my thinking is that either that is incorrect or windows > somehow 'cooperates' with reader to figure things out. > > I am looking for *any* insight as to how to deal with this, and the 'turn off > protected mode" option wont work for me. > > Here is my code, > > outputname = " unlocked.pdf" > > commandstr = "qpdf --decrypt " + sys.argv[1] + outputname > os.system(commandstr) > > new_command_str = "AcroRd32.exe /n" + outputname > subprocess.Popen(new_command_str) > > sys.exit(0)
Sadly so far it looks like the only answer is to disable protected mode, either generally or on a my app basis, which is the same thing because my app will be registered as the default handler for pdf. So this is a deal breaker. I've even tried routing the opening through a bat file... so either I get this to open up in protected mode or I don't see anyway to make it go, with out using a different reader. But thank you all for your help, will update should I have any success in this. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
