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Our software product writes PS containing pdfmarks. To create a link to a web page, our users can supply a URL and the software + Distiller make the right links to launch the default browser from the PDF reader. Fine, so far.
Now a customer wants to launch a mail client instead, using the "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" URI and the same features -- which translate into pdfmark coding as
[ /Rect [...whatever...]}
[/Action << /Subtype /URI /URI (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>
/Subtype /Link /ANN pdfmark
When they read the PDF document and click on the link (on Windows, with Internet Explorer as default browser) they first get an error page in IE saying it can't find a page at that address, and *then* get the mail client, properly opened.
I tried the same thing from a Windows command box, just calling IE with a string argument, no other software involved, and got the same behavior.
Is there any way to pass through some additional notation with the "mailto:..."; that will cause Internet Explorer to suppress the error page and just display the mail client? And if so, will it break other browsers?
Thanks, Mark
-- ***** Mark.DeVries AT xyenterprise DOT com **** Xyvision Enterprise Solutions 781-756-5303 *** 30 New Crossing Road, Reading MA 01867 USA
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