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JR: I am a little unclear as to what exactly you mean. If you mean that an autorun.exe program can be put on the same CD that runs under both Mac and Windows OS, that is news to me. If you mean to say that the autorun facility is available to both, most certainly I agree. However, my (Windows only) experience is that the autorun.inf file was designed only to run an application, not to open a file. For example, if you had a PDF file that you wanted to open, you could not put open=filename.pdf in the autorun.inf file because not all Windows versions will run it which was the problem I encountered here at work - some versions of Windows would work, some wouldn't. The proper method to use autorun.inf is to have it run an application such as run=application.exe (the syntax may not be correct but that is the general idea). The application can then be prompted to open a particular file. Agreed! Many users have their autoinsert notification disabled so whatever method you may use, they would all fail. You could then have a ReadMe.txt file in the root of the CD that states, "Open filename.pdf in your copy of Acrobat Reader". Providing the installed files also is very good too. Jules > This is not true, you can put a Windows and a Mac autorun on the same > CD, but bear in mind that most users disable this function from their > OS, especially Mac users... > > If you don't want to see your final users to install Reader, you can > provide an installed version on the CD-Rom. Simply copy the folder of > an installed Reader 5.x, one for Mac OS, one for Windows. > Reader can run from the CD-Rom on both platforms. To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
