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2010-04-06 07:09:32
johnkubik
Registered: Apr 5 2010
Posts: 2

Hey everyone,

I have searched on this forum, the internet, and the PDF junkie blog and have not been able to find a solid way to resolve my problem.

My current way of doing things is I have a word document that has embedded documents as appendix files for reference.

I was hoping to have a portfolio that has a main word document and has links to other documents inside of the portfolio, as to avoid having to embed the documents into word. This would also allow some sort of java console commands to take place when opening up the appendix files since they wouldn't be embedded anymore.

The problem I am running into is that the link tool is not allowing me to make a link from a .doc to another .doc. Is there any way to create a link to open either in preview mode or in edit mode a target word or excel document that is housed in the same pdf portfolio?

Also, the reason I dont convert all of the word files to pdfs is that they still need to have the ability to be edited and changed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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2010-04-06 13:45:28
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
It is entirely possible to setup links between two PDFs in a portfolio, I've done it. Non-pdf files are an entirely different issue. Acrobat does not render ".doc" files. It doesn't know anything about them. It gets some other application (Word) to do it. And by the same token, Word doesn't know anything about the structure of PDF, so while it can link between documents on a file system or files embedded inside a doc file, it can't link between documents in a PDF.

Another part of this is that the "preview" of the doc file you see in a Portfolio is not the real doc file. It's a rending of the doc file.

Having said that, doc files are very popular, obviously, and it's entirely possible that Adobe will setup some kind of special system for hanling the situation you're dealing with.

And actually, it's also possible to create a Windows system service that would make a PDF Portfolio look like a file system so Word, and other file types, could navigate to files in a Portfolio just like they navigate to files on disk. Maybe Adobe will do this, but I wouldn't count on it.

As things stand now it can't be done.

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2011-06-13 12:41:26
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melindavips
Registered: Jun 7 2011
Posts: 2
Does this mean that folks who maintain multiple-file Word documents and want cross-file hyperlinks to work after combining the files during PDF conversion are out of luck?
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2011-06-13 12:41:45
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melindavips
Registered: Jun 7 2011
Posts: 2
Does this mean that folks who maintain multiple-file Word documents and want cross-file hyperlinks to work after combining the files during PDF conversion are out of luck?
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2011-06-13 23:11:04
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Correct. For security reasons non-PDF files in a Portfolio can't see each other - a Portfolio is not like a regular folder of files.

melindavips wrote:
Does this mean that folks who maintain multiple-file Word documents and want cross-file hyperlinks to work after combining the files during PDF conversion are out of luck?
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