How to specify a relative path to a (pdf)-document in a (pdf)-document
How to specify a relative path to a (pdf)-document in a (pdf)-document
- Subject: How to specify a relative path to a (pdf)-document in a (pdf)-document
- From: Dirk Hollstein <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:42:42 +0200
Dear list members,
I am writing to you to ask for some help on specifying a path to a
document, which I could not find by searching the web and the list.
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What I want to achieve is this:
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- Having a couple of hyperlinks in a PDF-document, that opens other
PDF-documents on a CD-ROM by clicking on it.
I found this website, where this kind of relative links are described
for OpenOffice:
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/create-relative-links-in-pdfs.html
I know that in Acrobat you can specify a link to a document in
relation to the document you put the link into, which is what I want
to achieve. I this a specialty? I do not want to use Acrobat or
OpenOffice to add the links, because I would have to add thousands of
links by hand.
Instead I can use Cocoa and some text editor to finish formating and
finally print to pdf using Quartz Context or Adobe Acrobat.
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How I tried to tackle the problem:
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- I did create an rtf-file with a hyperlink to a file programatically
and opened the file in e.g. MS Word and converted it to PDF using
Adobe Acrobat.
- I created an NSAttributed string and set a fileURL to the document
using NSURL's fileURLwithPath: method and saved it to an rtf document,
using NSData's dataFromRange: documentAtttributes method. This works,
but the path is absolute, so there is no way of putting it onto a CD-
ROM.
Using baseURL does not seem to give me the option of specifying a file
url, as well as somehow counteracts on reaching my aim: a baseURL is
again an absolute path, which I will not find on a CD-ROM mounted on
Windows or Linux-boxes or on Macs.
So my question is how to reach my aim using a new approach?
Any help is very much appreciated,
thank you in advance.
Regards,
dirk
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