I am running Excel 2016, which may be relevant if the below is a compatibility issue...
In short, I am trying to display a PDF, embedded in a UserForm in Excel.
I have a UserForm, say UserForm1.
I have enabled the following extra references:
- Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility 5.3
- Adobe Acrobat Browser Control Type Library 1.0
This allows me to add the Adobe PDF Reader as an "Additional Control"
The control appears as a hatched box icon (bottom left), which I'm not sure it's meant to. Then if I try to add one of these objects to UserForm1 (both programmatically and in design view) it gives me an error
Element not found
For reference, the relevant lines of VBA I was using were:
Dim PDFviewer As AcroPDF
Set PDFviewer = PDForm.Frame1.Controls.Add("AcroPDF.PDF.1")
Which I took from this Adobe forums thread: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1065554
Resources online suggest it might be that the AcroPDF control is no longer supported. If so, is there another way to achieve what I want?
As an alternative to using the AcroPDF, try using the WebBrowser Object.
It requires including the additional control
Microsoft Web Browser
Add a WeBrowser on the UserForm named WebBrowser1
Private Sub UserForm_Click()
Me.WebBrowser1.Navigate "about:blank"
Me.WebBrowser1.Document.write "<HTML><Body><embed src=""C:\temp\SO_Answers\test.pdf"" width=""100%"" height=""100%"" /></Body></HTML>"
End Sub
You can just .Navigate to the PDF directly, but, to quote my comment:
"It's safer to use the html part, depending on the machine settings, sometimes direct navigation will initiate download instead of display."
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41292195/display-pdf-in-excel-vba-userform