In Excel2010 embedded PDF

[Nerojola]

Hi,
I got an excel sheet with embedded PDFs.
If I like to open them, it tells me: “cannot start the source application for this object”
Google only finds "switch off Adobe Reader open files in secure mode".
Due to PDF-Xchange instead of Acrobat I did not find this "switch" yet.
I think I'm not the first, but it looks like I searched with wrong words in this forum
Is there any solution to open such embedded PDFs?

Leo

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Hi Nerojola,

Thanks for the post - could you please send the Excel document? I'd like to take a look and test here, as I believe that these should be opening fine.

Cheers,

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Thanks for the sample file Leo,

Posting what I already told you in the e-mail here as well so that others could see it if having the same issue in the future.

Embedded things in Excel are OLE objects.
You can read a bit more on OLE here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Lin ... _Embedding

And the way those objects work is to look for a particular application, and for that application only. So once the file is embedded in this way - you must have the same application at the other end to be able to open the file, and can't use an alternative also capable of handling the same file type. I am afraid that there is nothing we can do in this case.

Regards,
Stefan