Hans— I caught the typo in my last message. Regrettably, though \useexternaldocument[ch4][../01-04_Gants/c_01-04_Gants.pdf][Gants and Hailey] \goto{Gants and Hailey}[ch4::../01-04_Gants/c_01-04_Gants.pdf] still prints “Grant and Hailey” as an active link, it is not one in fact. Same for \from[ch4]. I must be missing something. But what? Alan On Jun 18, 2007, at 7:10 AM, Alan Bowen wrote:

Hans—

I currently have

\useexternaldocument[ch4][../01-04_Gants/c_01-04_Gants.pdf][Gants and Hailey] \goto{Gants and Hailey}[ch4::../01-04_Gants/cc_01-04_Gants.pdf]

But, though the phrase “Gants and Hailey” does appear to be a link, selecting it does not actually open the file.

Is there a problem with the use of relative pathnames?

Alan

On Jun 18, 2007, at 5:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Alan Bowen wrote:

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Please excuse the Mac centric formulation of my question.

If Folders B and C are in Folder A, is there a way to insert a link in a PDF file in Folder B that will go to a PDF file Folder C and open it?

just prefix the filename by the path

Hans

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Jean— Many thanks for the tip. It turns out that the PDF viewer that comes with TeXShop is the partly responsible for the problem. The other part of the problem is with the relative pathnames—which is a limitation if the aim is to put the PDF files produced on someone else’s server. The solution was to use an alias of the target PDF file (symlink?) in the same Folder (directory) as the .tex source file in which the link is established and to use another PDF reader. Many thanks. Alan On Jun 19, 2007, at 1:43 AM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:

Le 18 juin à 23:25:24 Alan Bowen écrit notamment:

| Hans—

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| I caught the typo in my last message. Regrettably, though

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| \useexternaldocument[ch4][../01-04_Gants/c_01-04_Gants.pdf][Gants and | Hailey] | \goto{Gants and Hailey}[ch4::../01-04_Gants/c_01-04_Gants.pdf]

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| still prints “Grant and Hailey” as an active link, it is not one in | fact.

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| Same for \from[ch4].

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| I must be missing something. But what?

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| Alan

Things like that have happened to me and I found out that *sometimes* it is the pdf viewer which is responsible: xpdf coud not open the file but acroread did it. I'm not sure how I fixed it but I seem to remember that xpdf hated relative links...

Sorry if this is completely on a wrong track...

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