"article" - flow - auto switching-off (workaround) ?

[Cresby]

Acrobat 4.0 under Win98.

TASK showing sets of photos from a link and returning to that location.

SYNOPSIS using "articles" feature to show photos and text works perfectly until you change the page before completing the path of the article (or click on any other article by mistake). With most articles I will include hyperlinks back to the calling location. Some articles are called successfully by (and return if used properly to) more than one source location so hyperlinks will not return to the calling location per se but to the designated destination.
Page exit actions to cover this are not allowed. Duplicate pages are possible but it will become a logistic nighmare when I change (tinker with) pages/images.
QUESTION how do I stop the user surfing to dozens of pages and get lost?

FALLBACK position has to be a file for every "set" of photos and duplicate sets for each source and use hyperlinks instead. A major undertaking (logistics again) and fail-safe in operation but do-able. Articles stay within one document which is tidy.

TIA
Cresby

 

[Cresby]

I gave-up on "articles" in this context and wrote my own Java set. It allows me to have one page accessed by many pages and return to the specific calling page. If the surfer wanders it returns the surfer to the cycle if within about 10 surfing page changes then clears down.
You gotta want the results to bother but Java and the way Adobe handle it does make it easy.
So one gold star for Adobe there I think.