Hyperlink on current field value sent to pdf

I have a Crystal 8.5 report that I have sent out to pdf. I am reading it in Reader 9.4.3. I created a hyperlink that when clicking on some text (drive and path to an image file), it will show up as
c:\folder\image.bmp
in the tooltip. When I click on it, it brings up a security warning and allows me to click on Allow or Block. The path now says
c:%5Cfolder%5Cimage.bmp
When I click on Allow, nothing happens. To get backslashes to show up in the tooltip in Reader, I had to set up the path in the database like this
c:\\\folder\\\image.bmp
When I click on the link in Crystal, it opens the image in the MS Viewer.
The user would like to be able to export the report to pdf that can be then viewed and if the end user wants to click on the link to see the image, they should be allowed to. Not all users have access to Crystal.
Any help is appreciated, TIA rasinc

Thanks for your attempts sharonamt. When I exported to RTF, the link in the tooltip came up as:
file:///C:\Users\WindowsLoginName\Desktop\.bmp
and it tells me to Ctrl+Click to follow the link.
I believe it is referencing the desktop because that is where I sent the rtf but the text itself is the correct text displayed to the path of the file. When I moved the rtf to my server and opened it from there in Word 2007, the tooltip said
file:///C:\.bmp
When I opened the rtf from the server on my notebook running XP and Office 2000, it was the same.
I then set it up to email out as a pdf and rtf (conversions done in the program that generates the report). In pdf format it still shows the original message I got with %5C instead of \ and in rtf format it references the UNC path to my server where the file is located but it removes the \ from the normal path so it shows as file:///
ServerName\ResourceName\folderimage.bmp missing the \ between folder and image.bmp.
I've currently got the reference to the real path with two backslashes because when I have it with only one \ it seems to be removed. It seems backslashes are some internal command for something because even when I type in two of them here, it forces a line break.
So I am completely stumped now.

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