Launch pdf from Standalone

I'm distributing my Captivate project via CD, so chose to
publish as a Standalone project. I have pdfs that are included in
the same folder as my exe. When I click the links to these pdfs, it
launches Internet Explorer and I get a "Page Not Found" error. When
I publish the project as Flash files, the links work OK, but when
someone inserts the CD, they get the Flash security warning, which
I think may throw some users off. I tried saving the Word docs as
htm, but that didn't help. Can you have links from a Standalone
project?

Hi again Evelita
Linking to other files in an exe output is no problem. All
you have to do is specify the absolute path as it will be found on
the users machine. So for a CD distribution, I would recommend that
you manually type in the full path for the reference material e.g
D:\ProjectXYZ\Reference_Materials\whatever.pdf.
Hint - I actually copy all my reference materials to a CD
with the expected path built in and then just reference my project
to that. The only drawbacks you can expect is if your users have a
different drive specced as the CD drive, in which case the manual
path capture is the better one.
Lastly, just make sure that you click on the little
whatsisname next to the file path in the button properties dialogue
box and select to open in a new window AND to NOT continue playing
movie.
Helpful I hope, insane am I
Andrew

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