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Am having huge nightmare! I have ceated a publication with lots of links to launch pdfs. When I publish the thing and burn it to cd it loses the pdfs. I think this is because I need to get it to look for them in a different place but need help!

Thanks

Problem solved! Thanks

Ok not solved!! It works as a stnadalon publication but not as a webbased one! Any help would be very much appreciated

Thanks

No one else seems to have helped, so I will try---it's an area I am not too familiar with, but quick research suggests you should use the Docview to embed the PDF in the publication.

Try the following:-
In the tools menu:that's the menu with the little icons---not the 'tools' option of the top menu bar.

Look for a tool which is called 'create browser'. This has two options. 1. Create browser ---- 2. create docview. The icon will be different depending which selection is active. The create browser icon is a small round thing and the create docview is a small window with another smaller window offset.

Select 'create docview' and on the page, you will have a cursor...click and drag a window on the page--this is where the doc will be 'viewed' on the published version. When you draw the window, you will be prompted for the file to view. Select the PDF. Publish and see if this works. I'm sure there is probably a better way, but this seems to work fine.
Do a search on the forum for PDF you might find some additional help.

Hope this solves your problem.

Alison

I can think of 2 possible reasons for your problems. I'm not sure that I completely understand your underlying problem, so I'll list both.

Possibility 1

Have you considered producing a setup/installation file? You do this by:
1. Publishing your pub as normal.

2. When this finishes, instead of chooing the default option to Return to the Opus Editor, select Create a setup program for distribution and click the Finish button.

3. Choose your options and click Next.

4. The next screen contains an option that allows you to add additional files. Click Add files or Add directory.

5. Continue until you have listed all the PDF files. Click Next.

6. Continue making selections relevant to your project.

On completion you will have a single setup file which will install the publication exe and all your pdf files into the single installation directory chosen by you.

Once you have done this, your pub should have access to all your pdf files.

Possibility 2 -- less likely

For a variety of reasons, you will find that several Opus designers, in recent years, have had problems using PDF files. The biggest problem I encountered was various incompatibilities and restrictions in using older versions of PDF documents with more recent versions of Adobe Reader.

For that reason, I switched to using a nifty little program called PDF2EXE which is available from http://www.pdf2exe.com/. There is a free version, plus a Pro version. Using this, it is simple to convert any PDF file to an EXE, and because the resulting exe includes its own PDF viewer, I've avoided all the problems that were bugging me.

HTH

If you are launching the PDFs using a Launch action, then that will not work in a web publication - for security reasons it is not possible to launch external applications from the web.

However, what you can do is use the Launch URL action and set the path to be the address of your PDFs on the web - eg "http://www.test.com/test.pdf"