Lingo been very very good to me! Acrobat ... I don't know. I'm working on a project where the output is an "FDF" (an Adobe Form Data File) to be used in conjunction with a PDF file. That is, there is a PDF file that has "fields" whose contents are filled in from the data in an FDF file. I am generating the FDF file on the fly via Lingo. Overall this works very well.
However, one must "link" the PDF file to the FDF file. I am not creating these files in Acrobat, my client is. According to them, the way you link the FDF file to the current file is that there is a menu option in Acrobat where you specify the name of the associated FDF file. This seems fine. However, my client claims that when you specify the FDF file, Acrobat builds an ABSOLUTE file path. While this product is mainly a PC product, I am building it on a Mac (no platform wars please!) and we would like it to be a cross platform product if there weren't any "gotchas" like this. I questioned this because: #1) You cannot know up front what the main drive letter for a target PC will be. While most use the C: drive as the main hard disk, that isn't neccessary. #2) Using an absolute path would mean that this would not work on any Mac. (User's are allowed to name their hard disk anything they want - so you can never be assured of the name of the hard disk.) Further, if you put in an absolute file address in PC form, that path would never work on a Mac. If anyone has experience building PDF files with associated FDF files, can you please let me know if this claim of absolute file paths for the FDF file is correct? Or is there a way to specify a relative path - e.g., relative to the current program. If there is, please let me know how to do this, so I can inform my client. I find it hard to believe that Adobe could release such a product and require absolute file paths. Thanks, Irv -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
