Opening PDF file in SWT Browser - XulRunner default viewer

Question

Situation:

My RCP application uses XulRunner
System has two installed PDF viewers (Acrobat, Gimp)
Firefox has Gimp set as default viewer
I want to make my SWT Browser composite in RCP application ignore default viewer and use Acrobat if it is installed
If it is not, I want to use default viewer

Question:

Can I achieve this by (temporarily) setting some XulRunner or System property in my application?

What operating system is that RCP application running on? – Dakkaron Jun 16 '15 at 15:06 — Dakkaron, Jun 16 '15 at 15:06
only Windows, nothing else – Jan Hruby Jun 18 '15 at 14:00 — Jan Hruby, Jun 18 '15 at 14:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 09 '15 at 10:17

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You can create a Process in Java and execute the below command line to open PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Reader forever.

start "" /max "ExecutablePathAdobeAcrobat.exe" /A "pagemode=FullScreen" "PDFFilePath.pdf"

answered Aug 09 '15 at 10:17

Tejas Unnikrishnan

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thanks for answer,but this I couldn't do. I needed to display the PDF in embedded Browser composite, so starting independent process was not a possibility. This issue was found indoors, all customers use acrobat, so we did not make anything with it so far. But still, an interesting topic – Jan Hruby Oct 19 '15 at 13:43

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '15 at 21:00

Check this link : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-built-pdf-viewer-and-use-another-viewer

I am pretty sure there should be a way to codefully disable the gimp or whatever built-in app the firefox uses. you might need to use some APIs that modify preferences in Firefox

Opening PDF file in SWT Browser - XulRunner default viewer

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