RE: WinHelp to PDF Links

[Suzette Seveny <sseveny@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had this requirement sometime last year.  What I came up with was that you 
can link to a PDF from a Winhelp file, but you cannot link to a specific place 
in the PDF.

Suzette Seveny
Markham, Ontario, Canada
sseveny@petvalu.com or suzette@yesic.com
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> >
> > I am trying to connect a link in a help file to a specific location in a
> > .pdf file.  For instance, if the user clicks on a topic or a hotpoint in a
> > standard WinHelp file, I would like to have a .pdf file opened up to a
> > specified location.
> >
> > I have looked around in the archives, in a multitude of web sites, etc.,
> > and
> > have found nothing on this.  I have found information on calling a .pdf
> > from
> > an HTML file, but nothing on a standard WinHelp file.  Are the procedures
> > the same for WinHelp as they are for HTML help?
> >
> > Does anyone know how to do this or where I could find out this
> > information?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Carter Campbell
> > ccampbell@sterne.ab.ca
> > Technical Writer Guy
> > Sterne Stackhouse Inc.
> > Calgary Alberta
> > Canada


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