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January 26, 2018
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Relative Links to connect different files

  • January 26, 2018
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Hello all,

first of all I have to state that I am flabbergasted about the circumstance that I have to address this issue to a forum rather than to a technical support employee. Nevertheless, I hope someone knows the answer to my problem.

I want to connect different files with the "add or edit link" function of adobe reader. I supposed that Adobe Reader used relative links and at the start it all worked well - links were still working when moving the files into another directory. I tried to make it work onto another computer, however only one link still worked. The others were magically converted to absolute links.

I tried to fix that and it all seemed to work well, but at one point (maybe just after an automated saving, I am not sure) the links were again converted to absolute links.

Is someone familiar with that matter?

Kind regards!

Theodore

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    Correct answer Bernd Alheit

    I am pretty sure that this is not true for me. I can assure that I all files are in the very same working directory, but I am working on a network location. Does that change anything?


    Yes, don't use a network drive.

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    Bernd Alheit
    Bernd Alheit
    Community Expert
    January 26, 2018

    What do you use? Adobe Reader can't add links.

    TTB72
    TTB72Author
    New Participant
    January 26, 2018

    Thanks for your answer, Bernd!

    I am using Adobe Acrobat XI, 11.0.23, "Tools" > Add or Edit Link > Go To A Page View > then select Page for linking. Some links that were generated by this procedure seem to produce relative links and continue working when I move the directory, but at some point they were stopped working.

    Sorry, but this inacurracy does not change my question, though. Above, I described the matter in more detail.

    Bernd Alheit
    Bernd Alheit
    Community Expert
    January 26, 2018

    Make sure that all files are in a folder or subfolders of this folder.

    Info Adobe Acrobat XI is old and unsupported.

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