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Linking to separate application under OSX

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brayne

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Jan 18, 2005
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AU
Hi all,

Sorry if this has already been covered, but I'm in a real bind. I have created a pdf file that allows the user to scan through a range of images. Once they have seen the images, they then have the option to launch a separate application (written by me) that will allow them to select which images they want, and then save them to an output location of their choice.

I have done this with the link tool. I have made a link on the page, that uses the "Open a File" action. I then have this link pointing to my application. When working under Windows or Mac OS9, this method works flawlessly, but under OSX, I get a message that says "Could not open the file ...". I still get the normal "The application ... is set to be launched by this pdf file. The file may contain blah, blah", but then it fails.

As I said, this is a method I have used successfully before, but this is the first time with OSX, and it simply doesn't want to work. Has anyone else discovered this problem? Is there a workaround?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
brayne
 
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