On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Dave S wrote:
> My app generates an on the fly PDF manual by using reportlab, once generated
> I
> would like it to be automatically opened and displayed by XP adobe reader.
>
> Here's where I get stuck. ...
>
> os.execv('E:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe',
> ('/n', '/s', 'user.pdf'))
>
> Does what I need and works great but I manualy searched around to find the
> path to AcroRd32.exe. Short of writting some code to scan any adobe dirs for
> this exe is there a more elegant way for me to ensure my app will work on any
> windows machine ?
try this:
os.startfile('user.pdf')
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