Word Document

[Bulah webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi there,
I have just made a navigation help file in Microsoft Word, is it possible to link this document to a Director movie, if it is how do i do it?
Thanks

[Loren Schwarz]

If you want to distribute your Director movie, I'd suggest you save your
Word document in a common file format such as .rtf or better .pdf. Say
you've converted your document to a file called myHelp.pdf then use

open (the moviePath & "/myHelp.pdf") with (the moviePath & "/AcroRd32.exe")

In the case of a .rtf file format you could use WordPad.exe to open it -
every Windows computer should have that. The above line of code makes
Director look for both the file and the executable in the same directory as
your movie is. Of course, you have to make sure that this is really the case
;-)

L.S.

[Bulah webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi there,
Thank you for the information, I found it really helpful.

Thanks again

[hyperdimensional]

Hi,

Is there any way to link to a word document on a network drive and Contribute not upload it to the webserver?

Thanks,
Ben

[amadas]

Hi,

I didnt get your requirement exactly. Can you answer me the following
questions..

1. Are you operating on Windows?
2. You are creating a page in contribute and creating a hyperlink to a
word document which is residing on your network drive? Is the drive mapped on
your machine (if windows) or Mounted if it is Mac?
3. Do you want contribute to upload the dependent file or not?

If you want to upload the dependent files i guess good old link to
Link->file on my computer, with dependent file copied to local machine works
fine.

- Arun

[amadas]

Hi,

Both on Windows and Mac Contribute uploads the linked file to the server and
rewrites the link in the following two cases.

1. You can Map a network drive on Windows and try this scenario of
inserting a link to a word document on a network drive. CT works fine.
(Right click on My computer, Choose Map Network Drive, Choose a drive
letter, and Enter the server and share name (eg: \\10.192.37.22\wwwroot)
2. You can Mount a network drive on Mac and try this scenario of inserting a
link to a word document on a network drive. CT Works fine.
(smb://servername, Choose a share to mount a network drive.)

Only in this case when you do the following it will not upload the file to
your Server / Website.

1. Create a new page in contribute
2. Type some text, select it and choose Link->File on My computer
3. It opens up a dialog, Enter Server path
(eg: \\10.192.37.25 and press enter)
4. This will open the network drive on the fly
5. Choose a file (any doc file or image file)
6. Click ok.
7. Contribute creates a link \\10.192.37.25\.... \filename.doc
8. This way contribute does not upload the file to the computer.

Thanks
Arun