PDF Display in FileproGI

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list wrote:

> If you are running GI server as a service, then any program it starts is also 
> running as a service.  Windows prevents services from accessing the desktop, 
> unless you select "allow service to interact with desktop" in the service's 
> properties.  (And, even if you do set this, some versions of Windows create a 
> separate desktop on which the service will run, which is not visible to the 
> user unless you do some "magic", which I have forgotten, and other versions 
> will ignore this setting entirely unless you do some other "magic".)
>
> In short, filePro *is* starting the PDF reader, but Windows itself has placed 
> it on a non-existent desktop.
>
> This is the rules of Windows when running services.
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody

So the logical thing would be for fileProGI to launch the viewer from the 
client, would it not?

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