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I was told that using the autorun was unreliable and spawned strange "DOS type-looking" windows. When dispersing our PDF's on a CD we have found the 'average Joe' has problems knowing which icon to click on to open the PDF. So our solution was to put an exe file on the CD that would force reader to open and display the PDF. Do you know of any other options besides the autorun? :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aandi Inston Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDFdev] PDF Exe File > Does anyone have or know where I can find a PDF Exe file for > both a mac > and PC that would allow the user to put in a CD and the PDF just opens > in whatever version of Acrobat they have? There can't be any such single file. No program will run on both a Mac and Windows. Let's look at them separately. On most Windows PCs, Windows looks for a file called autorun.inf on the root of the CD drive. This can contain instructions to run a program. So, you create the program and refer to it in autorun.inf. Some PCs have this disabled. There are now many software offerings allowing this to be done with miminal programming. Macintoshes do have a facility to run programs when a CD is inserted. It will be completely different, and would require the CD to be authored from a Mac. But I would advise against it for two reasons (a) many Mac users disabled this because a nasty virus was spread that way (b) Mac users do NOT expect programs to run when the add a CDROM. They may be horrified or annoyed; this would not be a good start for you. What Mac users expect is to see a folder open containing "obvious" icons that they can click on to start what they want to do. You have to set this up using the Finder in conjunction with your authoring tool; Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X seem to have slightly different rules I haven't yet completely uncovered. Aandi To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
