Link to PPTX file

[Vectar]

I'm developing a Interactive PDF and one of the requests was to trigger a PPTX file from one of the PDF slides.

Basically I need the PDF  and PPTX together and when you open the PDF you will find many internal links, but one link should trigger the PPTX that is in the same folder as the PDF and open. Now I can only do this with an URL link, but it than kind of opens the PPTX through a browser and loads the whole PPTX first. It should open the PPTX file in PowerPoint dirctly. 

Main request :

- Keep link to PPTX when moving files around (but kept in same folder)

- Trigger the PPTX from a PDF slide and open the PPTX in PowerPoint not a webbrowser

Is this possible? Or what is the closest option?

[try67]

You can create a link to external files, but you can't influence the way it is opened. That's up to the OS. It basically uses the default application set up for that file-type.

[Vectar]

That works, but it will create a link including the whole path and my account name and all, while I link to a file in the same folder. I need to be able to send both files and if someone else puts these two files together in a folder, the link should still work. 

After making a external link in my PDF, I can't adjust it manually. Otherwise I could take of the root link information and make it a relative link, but this is not possible. Or i'm missing something.

[try67]

It might look like it, but it's not. If you move the PDF file to another folder and then re-examine the link you'll see that it changed to reflect the new folder in which the file is now located. It's actually a relative link, not an absolute one.

[Vectar]

Okay! Thanks, I will try it out tomorrow and let you know if it worked out.