Re: linking from Frame(PDF) to external files

Subject: Re: linking from Frame(PDF) to external files
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:41:19 -0800

You should also consider what the condtions will be like on the user's end. On
my systems, a PDF that attempted to link to other, non-PDF files would be
throwing up security dialogs left and right, because my security is configured
to ask before allowing a file to open another file (most of the time, my answer
is "no," and then I search out the file and do a virus scan on it before opening
its associated app manually to look at the file). As a user, I want PDFs to be
self-contained and easily portable; discovering that a PDF I copied to my laptop
to read while away from its product required additional files to use would put
me in a very bad mood about the product it was associated with.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
> If the
> hypertext area in FM doesn't turn into a working link to the file in the
> PDF, there may be another problem. Not generating Acrobat data? Path to
> file is wrong? No application associated with file extension? Security
> settings problem? There are many possibilities.

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References:
linking from Frame(PDF) to external files: From: Cherie Woo
RE: linking from Frame(PDF) to external files: From: Combs, Richard

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