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I'm doing this in Windows 7, with reader 9.2.0.
I'm writing a program that creates a html file, so that I can code my links in HTML, which is a language I am familiar with. All my links are directly to PDF files which are on the hard drive in a subfolder where the html file is located...
So, I create a file named FILE.HTML
Subfolder is named SUBFOLDER
In the subfolder is a file named FILE.PDF
Okay, so in my FILE.HTML I write a basic hyperlink to FILE.PDF.
if I open the file in any browser, and click the link, it now opens the PDF file as expected in READER, because reader is my default program for opening PDFs. Great.
But then, I convert the HTML file into a PDF. Great.
Now, I open the pdf version of my html file. It opens it in reader by default, so far so good.
But now, in reader, I hover my mouse over the link and it shows me the link is to FILE:\\\c:\blah\FILE.PDF... Exactly the same as what I see when I hover my mouse over the link in any webbrowser when I have the html file open.
But when I click the link in reader, a stupid box pops up saying something along the line of "warning, you are attempting to connect to ... PDF!! please click allow to make this stupid box go away." and I click allow. I wish it didn't show that message on local pdf files, it's just dumb. Anyway, I click allow.
And it sits there for like 10 seconds, and then finally it opens it... but IT OPENS IT IN ACROBAT! WHY!!
I need it to open my links in reader.
Please do NOT ask me to make my links using some other method. I need to use this exact method of first having the links in html format, and then exporting it from html to pdf, and the links need to open in READER... which is the default program on my computer for pdfs. Obviously reader is intentionally ignoring my system's settings and choosing to open pdfs in acrobat. I need it to not do this, because I will be giveing these pdfs with links to clients of mine and they will be really annoyed if every time they click a link it opens in acrobat, because acrobat takes way longer to open than reader and these people will be in a hurry. Help!!
Aaron

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