Custom Menu to load pdf guides

I have tried numerous ways to add to my menu the ability to open the pdf
guides that come with Autocad/ADT. What I want is to have a menu item
within my custom menu that will automatically load Adobe Acrobat and then
load the pdf document in question. I am at a loss. I have tried to modify
a copied line from the help portion of the menu which loads a web page, but
this does not work.

ID_AUGI [&Autodesk User Group International]^C^C^P(progn(command
"_browser" (findfile "augi.htm"))(princ)) ^P

The above line is from the help portion of the menu that I have tried to use
as a starting point.


Thank you for any help.

Keith White

 

(startapp (vl-registry-read "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\AcroRd32.exe" "")(findfile"Myfile.pdf"))

 

Thank you for your reply. I will work on this later tonight when I am less
busy.

Thanks again,

Keith White

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App
Paths\\AcroRd32.exe" "")(findfile"Myfile.pdf"))

 

Keith,

if the pdf extension is correctly assigned to acrobat reader you must not go the way with the registry key. You can use:

(command "start" (findfile "myfile.pdf"))

bob.at

 

Very nice. That is exactly what I needed (along with some other things ).
Some of our computers have the full version of Acrobat, and others only have
the reader. Now there is no problems loading a pdf regardless of the
version of Acrobat. I also needed to change the name of my custom support
directory so that it did not include any spaces in the name. Windows
(command prompt window) could not find the file if my support directory had
spaces in the name.

Thanks again. This works great.

Keith White

go the way with the registry key. You can use: