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Anonymous
July 22, 2009
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Air Help and Hyperlinks

  • July 22, 2009
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I have added a number of baggage files and hyperlinked them to text in the topic. I generated Adobe AIR help - result is that some of the links are dead. Is this related to "Mark of the Web"? How do I turn it off in AIR help?

Thanks!

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    Correct answer RoboWizard

    Hi there

    As I said earlier, MOTW is typically IE specific, so I'm highly skeptical that's the issue. More likely you are dealing with a simple file naming/linking issue. Have you scrutinized the differences between the links that work and those that fail? Are there any potentially odd characters used? Spaces in the file names perhaps?

    Cheers... Rick

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    RoboWizard
    RoboWizard
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    July 22, 2009

    Hi there

    AIR Help is so new that manu of us are still a bit fuzzy with it. We have played with it a bit, but are by no means totally certified expert users!

    I think the Mark Of The Web (MOTW) is unique to Microsoft Internet Explorer and its behavior. Frankly, I'd be shocked if Adobe were to base anything on that proprietary standard. So my guess is that you are looking at something else entirely. For starters, are we even sure that AIR Help supports the concept and operation of Baggage Files? I'd have to research that and test. It could be that it simply wasn't factored into the mix.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    July 22, 2009

    Just another note: In the Output View when generating AIR Help, there is a reference to "processing Mark of the Web":

    Applying Adobe AIR SSL 1.0 Template...
    ...............................................................................................
    Finished applying Template in 0 sec(s)

    Processing Mark of the Web...
    Finished compiling Adobe AIR output in 5 sec(s)

    There is an option to turn MOTW off when generating Flash and HTML help, but the option does not appear to be available in Adobe AIR. According to some other notes I found regarding broken hyperlinks to baggage files, MOTW might be creating the problem. Ideas welcome -

    Thanks!

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    Anonymous
    May 10, 2010

    Hi again,


    I have encountered similar problems and I think I know what is wrong with the process.


    When you gen in Webhelp and click on the link, I believe that the Windows API asks you if you want to open the link in a  new window.


    In AIRHelp, you only have te option to open in a "new tab" and I don't think that Windows and AIR are in synch.


    According to what I understand about Air 2.0 (which will allow files to be open in their native API), that should fix the problem

    Ciao

    Ed


    Just downloaded the AIR 2.0 beta runtime.  Recompiled my AIR output, but unfortunately, the links still do

    not work.

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