Sounds like a job for embedded pdf. Have you tried that?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Edwards" <don.edwards SEATTLE.GOV>
To: <VBDOTNETDISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:25 AM
Subject: [VBDOTNET] PDF on web form
> VB.Net 2003 (1.1)
>
> I have a help form that does lots of different things
and I
> need to add one more. That's the easy part.
>
> The hard part is that in this one specific context, I
need
> the help form to display an existing one-page PDF file,
and
> specifically the upper left portion of it. But I don't
want the
> entire PDF menu set, the tabs, the page navigation,
etc.,
> and the default of shrinking the document to fit the
width
> of the form and then showing the vertical center does
not
> give an acceptable result.
>
> (There are a couple circled and labelled areas in the
upper
> left; this page is so the user can find the same areas
on a
> PAPER page which was mailed to them earlier, and enter
> the information into a login screen.)
>
> (Oh, and yes, the web site is already doing a lot of
stuff
> with PDF files. But, first, I didn't write any of it,
and second,
> this is the only case where the on-screen appearance or
> position of the PDF document is important; the other
uses
> are where the user gets to print things.)
>
> Is there a cleaner solution than turning the PDF into
an
> image (JPG or GIF)?
>
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