Northcode,
I had everything working fine when I had the pdf file in the same directory as the .exe file. I went one step further and add the "DOSTART" and everything worked great, even on a Win 7 machine. Now the trouble starts, I want to put the pdf files in a folder in the director, but when I add "files\charts.pdf" to the action script it changes it to "files\\harts.pdf". And then I get an error. I tried several different charactors in the script and it won't change them. just when I use the "\". Is this a bug or is there another charactor used ?