VB and MS Word and links to PDF files????

[Wango]

I do have a project that encompasses different technologies. The customer needs an app ASAP.

I want to create a CD that can be opened in all different continents. This CD should be able to do the following:

On inserting it in the CD-ROM, it (cd-rom) should launch an application with two buttons. If any of the buttons is pressed, it should open an MS Word document (that is on the cd-rom). Any of the documents that have been opened (by clicking on a button) have links to pdf files. A user should be able to click on link a open up a pdf file.

The following is what I was thinking of doing:

- to create an application in Visual Basic 6.0 (as opposed to Access 2002) to avoid “MS Office version issues.
- To create an installation using VB installation package.
- To include a runtime version of the Acrobat Reader (if there is such a thing); I am assuming that most user will not have the capability (on their computers) to read pdf files.

I am not sure whether this will work so please advise before in dive in into an abyss.

[markmchugh]

do a bit of reasearch into the autorun feature in windows. Basically it will launch the application on your CD. You wont need to create a v.b. installation if you do not want the user to install the application view onto their p.c.

check out the licening issue with putting accrobat reader on your CD, i think it should be o.k. I know from getting CD's on covers of magazine that they launch web browsers to view the contents of the CD, maybe get one of them and try and see how it is set-up.

hope this helps a little, post back and let us know how you get on