RE:

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Shlomo, thanks, but the fact that the links worked for some people and
not for others suggested that it was not a source or construction
problem, but rather one of settings and software on the users' systems.
I posted what I believe was going on, in a wrap-up message titled 
" PDF Link to another PDF wouldn't open" yesterday.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:shlomo2 -at- microtype -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 06:02
> To: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re:
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> >I have a PDF document on our company website.
> >
> >A link on the first page of the document is an active link that takes
me
> >to a second document when I'm browsing with FireFox (which is my
default
> >browser)
> >
> >However, it does NOT work as a live, clickable link when I'm browsing
> >with Internet Explorer or with Opera 9.2. ...
> 
> Any error message when activating the cross-file link?
> 
> If the files are on a public web site, could you indicate a sample
PDF?
> 
> What are the authoring tools used to create the PDF?
> 
> Notice that sometimes a similar problem may be encountered even with
links
> that are perceived as internal -- see example/more details
> at  http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html#0702
> 
> [ If you use FrameMaker 8.0, see
> http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html#FM80
> for more information on cross-file linking problems when PDFs are
accessed
> through web browsers. ]
> 
> 
> Shlomo Perets
> 
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