Adobe Community: Am I able to link a button to a PDF?

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1. Bob Levine,

Aug 23, 2012 12:18 PM in reply to jgoshgarian

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Put the PDF into an HTMLResources.zip folder and link to it using go to url and HTMLResources/filename.pdf.

It will open in the in app browser.

Bob

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2. jgoshgarian,

Aug 23, 2012 12:26 PM in reply to Bob Levine

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Thank you Bob..

A few questions. Should that work in preview mode on my desktop? When I just did it, I clicked on my link and nothing... But I hadn't uploaded it to the ipad

So I put the pdf into a folder I named HTMLResources, and then I zipped it. Is that correct?In my go to url, I named it http://HTMLResources.zip/myPDF.pdf

Is that correct?

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3. Bob Levine,

Aug 23, 2012 12:49 PM in reply to jgoshgarian

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No. Not correct.

Create the zip file and then move the PDF into it. The file has to be in the root of the zip file.

Then fix the URL. It’s just HTMLResourses/myPDF.pdf. There is no http.

Bob

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4. jgoshgarian,

Aug 23, 2012 1:13 PM in reply to Bob Levine

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Not sure what I am doing wrong. I tried dropping the html:// before hand and when I click on the link, I get nothing. When I put the http:// back in I at least get a pop up window, bu tthen it says can't be opened because of an error. A Server with specified hostname could not be found"

Could there be another problem?

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5. Bob Bringhurst,

Aug 23, 2012 1:20 PM in reply to jgoshgarian

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Did you upload the HTMLResources.zip file in the folio? See this article for detailed instructions:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS67cb9e293e2f1f60-2 d5fb15412f5fb7a921-8000.html

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6. jgoshgarian,

Aug 23, 2012 1:39 PM in reply to Bob Bringhurst

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Thank you. I redid the HTMLResources.zip exactly as you said just now. zipped the actual pdf, then changed the name of the .zip fi

updates it, etc, and took off the http:// and still when I try it on the PDF, I get nothing....

I tried uploading the resources.zip through folio builder and through the folio producer, each time testing first on the ipad.

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7. Bob Levine,

Aug 23, 2012 1:40 PM in reply to jgoshgarian

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What do you mean you changed the name of the zip file? To what? From what?

Bob

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8. jgoshgarian,

Aug 23, 2012 1:42 PM in reply to jgoshgarian

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FINALLY worked. thank you!

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9. jgoshgarian,

Aug 23, 2012 1:47 PM in reply to Bob Levine

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MyPDF.pdf is the name of the file. I dropped it on the stuffit icon and it made a .zip file of it MyPDF.pdf.zip. I then just changed that name to HTMLResources.zip, so the inside PDF would be the root...

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10. Bob Levine,

Aug 23, 2012 1:54 PM in reply to jgoshgarian

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Very good. This is one area where, IMO, Windows shines over Mac.

Create a zip file and copy anything you want into it just a like a regular folder.

Bob

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