Until I found this discussion, I thought either everyone else knew how to control hyperlinks in Acrobat or else I didn't know how to phrase the question. I tried a lot of different ways to find help on the internet, but this is the first link I've found where people seem to have a similar problem to mine.
I came back from a foreign vacation with thousands of photos, and with a lot of great memories of places I couldn't remember much about. I spent months creating a MS Word 7.0 document where I pasted internet descriptions of all the places, monuments, unique restaurants, etc we'd visited. I created an ~ 10 page Table of Contents at the beginning of the document and hyperlinked each Table of Contents entry to the pages in the document where internet description was pasted. I stored that document in the same directory with the nearly 2000 pictures we'd taken during the trip.
Next - to the right of each line of the TOC - I typed the filenames of the photographs we'd taken of that that place. Now I could choose a town, or monument from the TOC and jump either to a thorough description of the place or to pictures I'd personally taken. The result was so cool that I decided to share it with some of the people we'd traveled with, so I bought thumb drives and copied my pictures and the 500 page Word document onto the thumb drive. In the copy of the Word Document I could no longer jump to my pictures.
Bear with me, there's a reason I talk about the Word Document.
While I had the Word Document open - from the thumb drive - I hit ALT +F9 and all the hyperlinks became visible. I found that the hyperlinks were "absolute" (i.e. they included the full path to the pictures). Since the thumb drive was a different path. Word couldn't hyperlink to the pictures anymore.
Here's my point... In Word, I could globally edit the hyperlinks just as easily as I could globally edit a document. All I had to do was to globally delete the portion of the address and leave only the filenames of the pictures. With that done, I hit ALT +F9 again to toggle off the text showing the hyperlinks and the pictures were once more accessible. My other hyperlinks within the document itself were unaffected.
In Acrobat I can't find any way to get it save the links without inserting the full path - which, of course, changes every time I copy the folder to another medium. Worse, I can't find any way to edit the hyperlinks as I was easily able to do in Word. Can Adobe take a cue from Microsoft and provide at least a way to edit hyperlink pathnames?
(Or have they already done it and I'm just too ignorant to know how to do it). As it stands, there's no convenient way to share my document - Different versions of Word paginate differently, and screw up the formatting, so Acrobat was supposed to be my workaround to that problem.
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