Creating Relative Links with Acrobat 8

How is the PDF index created?

If you are using Word, you can create the relative link in Word by not having a base URL for the Word Doc property and then using the "Hyperlink => Edit" to navigate to the file. There will be no full path information in the link screen, but if you move the mouse pointer over the link the "resolved" link will be shown in the popup.If in Acrobat, place the index in the final location for the staging folder and do not set a base URL. Now create the link to open the file. Even though the link displays the full path it is a relative link.

In PS you can use PDF markups to create the links with relative paths:

// pdf 2 directories below this PDF's location
[/Action /GoToR /File (..\\..\\welcome.pdf)
/Page 1 /View [/XYZ null null 0]
/Title (Welcome Screen) /C [0 0 0.8] /F 2 /Count 0
/OUT pdfmark
// PDF in the "docs" directory 2 directories below the PDF's location
% % Book mark for Status Reports
[/Action /GoToR /File (..\\..\\Docs\\StatusReports.pdf)
/Page 1 /View [/XYZ null null 0]
/Title (Status Reports) /C [0 0.5 0.8] /Count 0 /F 2
/OUT pdfmark


You will have to move the entire file structure and files that are linked without changing the relative location of the linked files or directories where the files are located.

The index is created in Word - but the links aren't transferring over to Acrobat like they used to. I recvd a new machine - Vista with Word 03 & 07 on it. So I'm not sure what is causing the links not to work. The documents are made up in Word 03.I'm not familiar with staging and base folder. After I generated the pdf from word - it was copied to the d drive. The other documents, that the index is linked to, are stored under a folder also on the D drive.
d:\index.pfd
d:\BOG\multiple docs that index links to.

Then I opened the index on D and linked them to the docs in the sub folder. I saved the index.pdf file - and then closed the session on the cd.

Can you explain a little more?

Jess

Assuming you D: drive is a CD-ROM, I woul crearte everyting on the C: hard disk drive.

So you have some structure like

c:\documents and settings\myuserID\My documents\index.pdf
c:\documents and settings\myuserID\My documents\BOG\various PDFs

In Word you can create Hyperlink with a link reference of "BOG\some.PDF"

Now have your conversion settings to include the external links and create the PDF index.

When you copy to the CD-Rom, copy the index to root directory and copy the entire "BOG" folder to the root directory of the CD-ROM and burn the CD-Rom and then test it.

You can also test this by moving/copying the index PDF and BOG directory to another directory but keep the index pdf in base directory and the BOG directory in the base directory.

C:\SomeDirectory\index.pdf
C:\SomeDirectory\BOG\various.PDF

The links created in Word no longer work after Word is converted to PDF. That's why I ended up creating the links in Acrobat.

Do you have the "Adobe PDF => Conversion Settings" correct and are you using the "Adobe PDF => Convert to PDF" or the PDF Covert button in Word.

I will check tomorrow morning and let you know. Thanks for the help.

It worked. Thank you much.
gkaiseril I owe you a pop - I'm just north of Chgo.