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Subject:RE: Linking from an application to a PDF From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:56:24 -0500
As they used to say on SNL, "New Shimmer is a floor wax *and* a dessert
topping."
Why "instead of launching Win/WebHelp?" Why not use an online help
application? PDF's a wonderful, cross-platform doc-printing format, but it
is not a floor wax, a dessert topping, or an online help app -- at least not
by design.
I apologize for not answering your original question, but perhaps I asked
the question that should have preceded it.
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John David Hickey
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:21 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Linking from an application to a PDF
>
> Greetings!
>
> Does anyone know what's involved in creating context-sensitive help
> for an application using a PDF document. What we want to do is use the
> PDF as the online help by allowing the application to call specific
> topics (tags) in the PDF. So instead of launching Win/WebHelp, it
> would open the PDF at the right spot...
