Re: Opening an Inserted Object (PDF)

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Graham, all looks good on the file associations. Since I am able to open some
files and not others, I thought that this might be setup properly.

Do you happen to know if there is a way to show, and perhaps extract an
embeded file without having to open it first? This way I can be sure that the
problematic files have the proper extension?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Check the Windows file association for PDF to ensure that it has quotes
around the %1 in the open with string: eg for Acrobat 6
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" "%1"

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KC wrote:
Thanks Graham. I did run a few tests and determined that no matter
how this Word document was opened (directly from the Sharepoint site
or saving to the desktop and opening) I received the same error. The
odd thing is that sometimes if there are word docs with multiple PDF
files attached, I can open one just fine and not the other. I also
posted this issue on the Sharepoint groups, however after running
those tests and removing Sharepoint from the equation, I really think
that this is a Word or maybe even an Adobe issue.

-KC

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This seems to be a problem related to Sharepoint (about which I know
nothing). All that inserting an object as an icon does is provide a
link to an embedded PDF file. Double clicking associates the PDF
with the application configured in Windows to open PDF files - in
your case that should be Acrobat. Here Sharepoint is presumably
getting in the way of that relationship. What happens if instead of
opening from Sharepoint you open the file directly in Word from the
hard drive?

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KC wrote:
To All,

I am trying to solve a very inconsistent problem with Word 2003 and
Acrobat 6/7.

I have a Word documents that we embed a PDF file into (Insert
Object>Adobe Acrobat> check display as icon) and then route to staff
using Sharepoint Services.

What happens incosistantly is that when a user opens the word file
from Sharepoint, and then double clicks the PDF icon to open the
file the first of two errors are displayed:

There was an error opening this document. File does not being with
%PDF-',

You click OK to that one to get the next error:

This object was created in AcroExch.
THis application is not available to open this object.
Make sure that the application is properly installed and that is had
not been deleted, moved, or renamed.

I assure you that Acrobat works just fine. In fact both Acrobat and
Reader are installed on most of these machines.

I have ran tests to confirm that the version of Acrobat used 6 or 7
does not appear to be a cause of these errors.

I read some article that said something that "Word is not especially
adept at handling PDF files". Whats this all about? Can this be
true? http://www.mcse.ms/archive264-2005-10-1887946.html

Anyone have any comments, thoughts or suggestions?

I would even be open to ideas on how to route word and multiple PDF
files together using SHarepoint. COnverting them all to DOC or PDF
and attaching them will not work. There are simple too many pages on
each file to do that, they need to be seperated. The Word Document
also had change tracking enabled so that it acted as a form for sign
offs and notes.

Thanks!
KC



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