Re: st: How to open a .pdf outside Stata with a Stata command

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

In what sense are you trying to "open" the PDF? It's fairly 
straightforward to call, for example, Adobe Acrobat from within Stata to 
view a PDF file. You can store most of it in a macro even:

 global adobe "winexec C:/<your path>/Acrobat/reader.exe"

 $adobe myfile.pdf


hth,
Jeph


On 12/18/2012 10:53 AM, Richard Svensson wrote:
> I read about a user-written program that enable the Stata-user to control iTunes on a Mac computer, and another program that makes it possible to Google-search inside Stata. So it seems that it's possible (at least on Mac) to control other softwares from Stata.
>
> What I am looking for, or trying to write, is a Stata-command that open a file (.pdf) outside Stata.
>
> Do you know of any way to solve this? Or do you know where I might find information about this in my
> struggle with this problem? Any important key words that might help me?
>
> Richard Svensson
> The QoG Institute
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