# Button to open PDF doc?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-to-open-pdf-doc/254700>\
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**Created:** [March 14, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-to-open-pdf-doc/254700 "2008-03-14T11:59:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![liscola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d9b06d/32.png) [@liscola](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/liscola)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-to-open-pdf-doc/254700/1 "2008-03-14T11:59:39Z")

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does anyone know the code that allows you to open a PDF document (in Acrobat) from Flash? Is this even possible? Basically, i have 3 PDF docs that need to be launched from a 3 buttons in my swf.

I would be able to do it if they wanted to post the PDFs on a webpage, but they actually want to run the swf locally and have it link to documents on their hard drive.

Anyone? oh yeah… this project is due today 😉