Goal: Trying to provide a embedded preview of a PDF file in a form (first page) without scroll bars, navigation panes etc showing.
Using Adobes PDF ActiveX control (Class AcroPDF.PDF.1), there are embedded PDF files in the MS Access form.
So far I have
pdfControl.src = filePath
pdfControl.setShowToolbar(False) ' hides toolbar (bar along top)
pdfControl.setShowScrollBars(False) ' hides scroll bars since only first page important
pdfControl.setPageMode("none") ' hides bookmarks and thumbs instead of opening by default
After this I'm left with just the navigation pane on the left. Using the object browser I went through the functions, could not see anything explicitly mention navigation panes.
Is there a way to hide the navigation pane from the embedded PDF control?
Edit: I've found that you can set a flag to hide the navigation page when opening in a non embedded instance as such
Call Shell("'" & applicationPath & "' /A 'navpanes=0&toolbars=0' '" & filePath & "'", vbNormalFocus)
But I'm still failing to achieve the same thing while embedded.
Edit2: Below is the image where on the left is what I'm trying to get rid of and on the right is what I'm trying to achieve.
Use a Web Browser Control
instead.
It will use the systems default PDF application to preview the files.
webBrowserControl.Navigate(filePath & "#toolbar=0&navpanes=0&scrollbar=0")
There are more parameters that can be used to customize the way you want to open the file in the document below