WinEdt ⇒ Error message on opening Winedt

[kgorahava]

Hi,

I just installed Winedt 5.5 and whenever I open it, it automatically opens a file called "Acrobat OpenDoc.edt" and it there are 126 lines of code in that file and it highlights the line number 106 that says, DDEOpen('%$("AcroRead")',"acroview","control",0);

When I create a DVI file by executing the code, it does so successfully but also a pop up window comes up, with the heading, "Warning" and it says,

Code: Select all

Cannot Open DDE link to:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Readder\AcroRd32.exe"
Service: acroview
Topic: control
DDEOpen('%$("AcroRead")',"acroview","control", 0);

And I have to press OK to close that window.

Is there a problem in my acrobat reader installation or in my Winedt installation ?

Please help me as I am using Winedt for the first time.

Thanks,
Kaushik.

[dram62]

Hi!

You just need to change "acroview" in the following line to "acroviewR10" or "acroviewA10":

// DDE: Required for Adobe 8!
DDEOpen('%$("AcroRead")',"acroview","control",0);

If it does not work, then probably you are using Acrobat 11 or another version. Thus, just change "10" to "11" and it will definitely work out.

Ahmad Mohaddespour

[dineshjk]

You may try changing the line

DDEOpen('%$("AcroRead")',"acroview","control");

to

DDEOpen('%$("AcroRead")',"acroviewR10","control");

or

DDEOpen('%$("AcroRead")',"acroviewR11","control");

as the case may be.