PDF doesn't display in CHM output

[todd.richardson]

Hello,

I have linked a TOC entry to a PDF file that resides in a subfolder called "PDF" under the Content folder. When I compile the CHM Help, then click the PDF TOC entry ("Installing the Runtime" in the example below, the content window is blank but for a small X icon - as if the linked PDF file cannot be located.



Any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks.

[RamonS]

Is there any default application registered for PDFs? And what do you expect to happen? The best I can think of is that the link opens the reader which then opens the file, but it seems as if you compiled the file into the CHM. Did this ever work before?

[todd.richardson]

Thanks for the reply. This is my first attempt to include PDFs in a HTML TOC. My expectation is the user will be able to open the linked PDF (inside the CHM window, or, preferably, outside of it). I suppose I should have prefaced my post by asking if this is even possible. Is it?

How/where do you register a program for PDFs?

[RamonS]

I doubt it, definitely not within the help viewer. The help viewer would need to know how to render PDFs and the CHM Viewer barely knows how to work with HTML. What you can try is a relative link to an external file in the file system, that means you will not compile the PDF into the CHM, but leave it as extra file in the same folder. This page http://www.cybertext.com.au/tips_HTML_chm_external.htm might also give some pointers.
That said, how about 'converting' the PDF into a real topic. Then you don't have to play tricks to get the file to show up.

[Bernie123]

No the above is not quite true.

We have been making a chm product with Flare for several years.
Embedded PDF files as hyperlinks and it all worked fine.

I have just complied our latest update and the the pdf's don't display.

My guess its some windows update!!