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Dear Members!

I succesfully embed the v3.2 Portable Reader in my Delphi application by invoking the reader with
CreateProcess WinApi function, passing the “PathToReader\SumatraPDF.exe -plugin hwndContainer xy.pdf” command line.

I have 2 questions:

• is it possible to leave out the xy.pdf filename from the command line? If it is missing, the application doesn’t start up, but with the PDF filename there is no problem
• I can send DDE commands to the standalone application, but when I embed it to my Delphi Form, it does nothing for my DDE-commands. Is there any other way to control the embedded application?
  Or is there a trick for the embedded reader controlling by DDE?

Thanx!!!

@Indysoft

NPAPI plugin mode is depreciated and reputedly never did support DDE
see https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/pull/511

To answer the first question possibly since without a filename I can see this but can’t open a second file to replace it, only by opening a second window.


As always there are ways to work around that limitation (in some known cases), but since it is a limitation it would only work for a specific sub set of circumstances that would likely make it too limited for general use.

There may be a separate way to build a headless window but that’s best asked at GitHub but first be clear about / understand GPL3 implications https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/456

e.g. best to approach Artifex for commercial SDK usage

Wow, thanks man!!! Will try ASAP.