Problem attaching a pdf file

May 19, 2011

I am having a problem attaching a pdf file as a hyperlink. i have tried all the options provided here so far. By putting it as an attachment, but providing the hyper link only to the name of the pdf, by placing the pdf in the same folder as published output folder, checking for internet explorer option, but nothing seems to be working at all.

Anyone who can help?

10 Replies
Phil Mayor

You need to check its working on your production server as testing locally may not work.  I take it your hyperlink is the just yourfilename.pdf, I would put the attachments in a folder in the root of the published output

e.g. pdfs/yourfilename.pdf

 the only issue here is that ppt will rename that hyperlink each you open the file to pdfs\yourfilename.pdf

You can get round this by writing a macro to change all \ to /

or use tiny.urls or another url shortening service

Hope this helps

Phil

Swati Choudhary

Thanks a lot guys, as of now, I’m working on my local machine and I am not so clued up about the server option.

The pdf is visible in the attachments of the published file, and the hyperlink works if I view it as a ppt. but the moment I publish it, it stops reading the link, even thought, the link path is correct.

Condoleeza T.

Hi, I'm having the same issue of a hyperlink to a pdf file not working.  It has worked in the past and I don't know what's different.  I am receiving the error message below.  The dropbox option is a good one but I am selling this course to a company for their LMS so I would prefer not to have anything on my system. 

Thanks,

Alanna

Condoleeza T.

Hi Robert - yes first I was trying that with no luck.  Then after some research I inserted the doc as an attachment and then linked to that.  It worked in preview mode but didn't work when published.  I redid everything again and republished and it seemed okay but I don't have full confidence in that and I'm not positive how it will work in a LMS environment.  Anyway, after spending about a zillion hours on this project, it got sent off to the client at midnight with my fingers crossed!

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