In article , Jeff T wrote:
Thanks for the response.

No problem.

On the computer where you're testing this, what pops up when you click a PDF link?
Reader or Acrobat? And which version? If it's version 7, that might well be the
problem. It seems to be flakey in almost exactly the way you've described from what
I've read on other newsgroups/forums. Haven't installed it myself for pretty much
that reason.

I'm not seeing this behavior on a Win2000 box with Acrobat Professional 6 and PPT2003



I am using PPT2003. The pdfs were created by Acrobat Standard software.
However, (if it matters) the computer I am burning my presentations on, has
acrobat professional on it. The pdfs were not created with the acrobat
professional however.

The cd's are being packaged for viewing, so it automatically burns the
powerpoint viewer and runs on its own....well....kind of.....if I can get
these links working.

My links are all text that might say "Souvenirs". I would right click on
the text box and hit the hyperlink option and hyperlink to the pdf that is
stored on my computer hard drive.

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:


#1: Some of the pdf files open in adobe in front of the powerpoint screen.
This is what I want. When I close out Adobe, and go to anther pdf link, it
will open BEHIND the powerpoint screen. Is there a setting that I am missing
that will open any PDF's in front of the powerpoint presentation all the
time? It is annoying.

#2. After I open up a pdf link, read it, close out Adobe, and go back to
the presentation menu, that link no longer works. If I do click on it, it
goes to a black screen that says "end of slide show". How can I keep these
links active all the time so when a person clicks on them once, they can go
back and click on them again without having to relead the entire powerpoint
presentation viewer and presentation again?

I am using Microsoft 2003 by the way.

Adobe is a company. They have a couple of different products that might wake up
when you link to PDFs, and each of the products comes in several versions. They
thrive on confusion it seems. We don't, so let us know whether you're using
Acrobat (full, Professional or Standard) or the free Reader, and which version.

I'll assume that Microsoft 2003 means PowerPoint 2003; let me know if that's
not right, 'kay?

Next, how did you create the link? There are a couple ways of doing this and it
may matter which you used.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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