Digital Workshop

Hi there,
I have a simple interactive CD project with links between menus and sub menus.
Ultimately the sub menus have links to PDF files.
By using the <SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR>, the path to the PDF files is found by the PC version I have created.

I have published using the Plexus option which works apart from linking to the PDF files.
How can Get the links to the PDFs to work in the Mac version?

Mick M.

Hi Mike,

Opus publications (except flash) are designed for Windows. How is it running on a Mac?

Mack

Below is a quote from the Opus help pages

"Opus Flex – definition

Opus Flex is a Digital Workshop plug-in that allows you to publish your Opus Pro publication to play inside the Adobe Flash Player. This means you can create Opus publications that can be run on a Mac or over the web without using the Plexus Plug-in.

To create an Opus Flex publication, you must change the Type tab in the Publication Properties dialog to Opus Flex – this will disable some options in Opus that cannot be used in Opus Flex publications.

When you publish an Opus Flex publication you will create a Adobe Flash SWF file."

I understood that to mean that it creates a file that will run on a Mac.
Confused of Surrey here.

Hi Mick,

That's not what you wrote. You wrote that you had published using Plexus.

Plexus is NOT flex - in fact your quote states that. Flex is basically a shock-wave flash format which is cross platform compatible on any system with the Flash Player installed - Windows / Mac or Linux.

How have you made a Flex publication that launches a file of any sort? It does state in the help that the launch file is not available, probably due to security restrictions of Flash accessing local files. There is a bypass, but it's just that a bypass where you can use the launch web page to launch a file instead but I'd hazard a guess that it depends on Flash / Browser security whether this works or not.

My only other thought is whether Macs use the same paths as windows - IE D:\myfile.pdf. If not will SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR actually work. You could try hard coding you Mac path and see.

Mack