Adobe Acrobat and WebDAV

Question

I am trying to open and edit (add annotation) and save the PDF to an IISWebDAV repository. I am using Acrobat Pro 9.0 and IIS 5.0 on XP SP2.

1. I need to be able to open the Acrobat programmatically from a Winform Application. I tried using Process.Start(url), but it opens the PDF in the browser document. Tried the following setting in Acrobat, but in vain. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/06/17/disable-pdf-from-opening-in-web-browser-ie-firefox-opera-safari/

Tried the following code, but it opens the command prompt and doesn't open Acrobat. string url = "http://localhost/SampleWebDAV/Root/TestDoc100.doc"; Process p = new Process(); p.StartInfo.FileName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("COMSPEC"); p.StartInfo.Arguments = "/c \"start \"" + url + "\""; p.Start();

1. Acrobat doesn't issue a LOCK/UNLOCK WebDAV command. Acrobat 9.0 release notes say that it supports WebDAV, but if I intercept the request with fiddler, I can see that only GET, PROPFIND and PUT commands are happening. I can't see LOCK and UNLOCK commands.

Thanks.!

Answer 1

I am updating the result of my research.

1. Process.Open() can not be used to open an Acrobat file from a web/wendav URL The same result can be seen if you try to pass the path to the Actobat.exe. Only the local machine paths can be given.

I evaluated many third party tool, but nobody has this functionality to open adobe from a Url.

1. But Adobe ActiveX component can be used to view the component even from a WebDAV/Web location. You just need to set the URL accordingly But this component doesn't allow you to modify the PDF like adding an annotation etc.

I solved my issue by downloading the file to a local directory and then opening using Process.Start().