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PDF Packages and viewing with Reader version 7

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2008-01-17 05:48:10
Carole_Smith
Registered: Jan 17 2008
Posts: 2

Hello, I am new to these Forums, so I hope I have posted this in the correct place!

I have a Word document, that contains links to 46 other Word documents, and the whole lot is to be uploaded as one Document onto an Intranet. I therefore thought that Acrobat Packages was the best solution to use. I have created a Package, making the main document the Cover Page, and uploaded the other 46 docs as part of the package (it has converted them all to PDFs also)

I then found that the only way to make links to other documents was to use 'Links and Destination' fearure, is this correct?

Anyway I did half of this and then sent to a collegue who only has Raeder Version 7 to make sure this worked. He was prompted with a message advising that the document used a new feature to his version (7) and there would be an issue viewing it. However the document did open, but when we clicked on one of the links, the main document disapeared and there was no obvious/easy way back to view the main document? (Repeated use of the Previous View button did work, but perhaps not obvious to my users)

Can someone confirm that I am using the correct approach, and if there is a problem viewing Packages with Reader v7... this would be most inconvienent if this is the case, which I find hard to believe.

Thanks very much

My Product Information:
Reader 7.0, Windows
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2008-01-17 17:25:17
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tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
If you're using PDF Packages that are sent to users of Acrobat/Reader viewers of 7.x, the PDF Packages are shown as file attachments. The links won't work. Perhaps a better approach is to use the Combine Files command and combine all files into a single PDF document. That will work as long as you don't have forms that use the same field names, digital signatures, or secured files.

You can then add bookmarks to the 46 different documents assembled in the file.

As a side note, if you continue with PDF Packages for Acrobat 8 viewers, you don't need to create Named Destinations. Just use the Go to a page view action and set the page view link to the different files in the package.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

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