There *is* a command you can use to launch PDF documents from a button in AutoCAD LT, isn't there? (I do mean "open", in Acrobat Reader or equivalent.)
I know there used to be one, because I have macros that used START to open a PDF file. However, they were built for AutoCAD LT 2007, and START is not a known command in AutoCAD LT 2010.
(This is embarassing for two reasons. First, I wrote the darn thing! Why can't I remember how I did it? And second...this icon should launch the CAD manual....and no one but me has noticed that it's broken. )
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Does the ai_STARTAPP Command work for you?
For example
^C^Cai_startapp;"c:/users/John/Documents/AOSRE50300[1].PDF"
Don't forget to use / (slash) instead of \ (backslash) when specifying the path because as you know backslash is used for wait for user input in macros.
Bingo! But was START ever a valid option? I've been trying to find out, but "START AutoCAD LT command" doesn't exactly generate good search results. 🙂 I seem to remember some sort of switch, but so much has happened between now and when I first wrote the macro that it might as well have been done by somebody else.
An LT Unlimited tip; I believe, from a couple years ago:
"Macro revisioning to newer platforms may require that ^R be added to the beginning of the Macro."
(Tough this has nothing to do wih the needed Command. )
Regards, Charles Shade
CSHADEDESIGN | AUTOCAD LT | LT-KB | DYNAMIC BLOCKS
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Admittedly I didn't try that one. 🙂
Ah yes, entirely possible. At any rate it's close enough to put it in the "solved" category...thanks.