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Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing

From Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>
Subject Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing
Date 2015-06-22 11:55 +0100
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On 22/06/2015 11:33, Robin Becker wrote:
> .....
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> Naftali,
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> I ran the following from python prompt
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for what it's worth this also works on my machine

> Windows PowerShell
> Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> PS C:\Users\rptlab> cd tmp
> PS C:\Users\rptlab\tmp> python
> Python 2.7.8 (default, Jun 30 2014, 16:08:48) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import subprocess
>>>> subprocess.Popen(['C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe','/n','thello.pdf'])
> <subprocess.Popen object at 0x0000000001D853C8>
>>>>

not sure if you are using 64bits or 32bit windows, but perhaps you just need to 
specify the full path to your AcroRd32.exe.

-- 
Robin Becker

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Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-19 10:24 -0700
  Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-19 20:17 +0200
  Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-19 11:45 -0700
  Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-20 09:50 -0400
  Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-20 20:14 -0700
    Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2015-06-22 11:33 +0100
    Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2015-06-22 11:55 +0100
  Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-22 06:15 -0700
    Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-22 15:37 +0200
  Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-22 07:23 -0700
  Re: Opening PDF Using subprocess.Popen Failing Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-22 09:13 -0700

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