PDF issues?

Question

Ok, so I've got a whole folder of PDFs that I'm trying to put up on an Intranet. There is one main "welcome" PDF, that contains bookmarks and links to the rest. So I put the main PDF on the webpage, but whats happening when you click on it, it loads the PDF into like a temp folder. Then when you click on one of the bookmarks, it tries to access the other PDFs in that same temp folder instead of off the server. For a quick fix, I tried combining all PDFs into one, but that resulted in a 4000+ page PDF, which is no good. Any suggestions on how to get these bookmarks to refer back to the original folder?

the URL is hard encoded...I already tried that...but for some reason once it loads into the temp folder, it still tries to access the others locally through that folder

Answer 1

The temp folder is internet explorer's temporary history, from what it sounds like. If you're opening a PDF, it's going to first download this PDF and then open it.

The best way to get it to refer to the other PDFs is to hard encode the URL of that PDF.

Example:
Say the site is www.pdf.com. Your PDF is www.pdf.com/welcome.pdf, and the one you're linking to is www.pdf.com/page2.pdf.

In this case, you would change the link in welcome.pdf for page2.pdf from 'page2.pdf' to 'http://www.pdf.com/page2.pdf'. This in turn forces the PDF reader to fetch the next PDF.

This is in no way shape or form elegant. If you're planning to upload them, depending on your time and availability, convert it to HTML with an option to download the PDFs. There are a few free PDF to HTML converters on the web, for instance, here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html

Good luck.