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>I read the great tip online about using the java script: 
>
>open=Acrobat5\Reader\AcroRd32.exe index.pdf
>defaulticon=Acrobat5\Reader\AcroRd32.exe,1

Just to avoid confusion, I'll mention that it's not javascript, it's
Windows AutoRun.INF syntax.

As written, it probably won't work UNLESS the default drive happens to be
C:, and the default folder happens to be whatever's above Acrobat5\Reader

That assumes also that there IS such a folder in the first place. 

Are you dead certain that everyone who receives the CD will have Acrobat
Reader installed, and installed in that specific directory tree?  It seems
unlikely.

Instead, I'd do one of two things:

1) Distribute Reader on the CD (see Running Reader from CD on
http://www.acrobatfaq.com/ )

or

2) If you're sure the CD user will have *some* form of Reader/Acrobat
installed, use Shyam Pillai and Chirag Dalal's LAUNCH utility (free)

http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/autorun_launch.htm

Launch the index.pdf file and let Windows figure out what app to launch it
with and where it lives.  

>
>to make an autorun CD with a pdf document.  I put the entire folder
"acrobat5" on the CD but when inserted in a PC the CD still looks for
AcroRd32.exe on the computer's "C" drive and says it cannot find it.
>
>What did I do wrong?  If I fill in the request in the prompt box for the
address "C:\program files...etc" then the CD will work just fine from then
on, but obviously I dont want everyone i send this to to have to do that.
>
>Close, but Frustrated Brianna
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