Hello Everyone,

This is my first post here and I'm hoping someone might be able to help me with a PDF issue that I'm having.

I've got a PDF file that has a button in it that links to an external file, but I've only been able to access using Adobe Acrobat Reader with Windows. Every Linux viewer that I've tried ignores the link entirely or tells me that the file cannot be found. I've tried using Okular and Document Viewer. I've tried a bunch of viewers on an Android smartphone as well, but no luck there either.

Does anyone have any idea why I can only get full functionality of the PDF with Adobe Reader for Windows and if there's anything I can do to get it work on my Linux machine?

Thanks in advance!

i am guessing that that "button" is hard coded to the Microsoft drive layout
Something like "C\\Program Files "

on a linux machine there is no "C" drive ,nor D or E

without seeing this pdf
there is no way to tell
the above is a wild GUESS

Ok, sounds like I'm S.O.L. unless I use the PDF in Windows.

Thanks for replying!

maybe wine can simulate a c:\dos\run filename.

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might

but you will need to install adobe pdf reader in wine

and as i said
that is only a guess
without seeing the pdf
or the software code used to make this "button"
for all i know it might be hard-coded to MS's "internet explorer" and calling it by name and not by calling the default browser

in Okular you should be able to view the code for that "button"
or if not then in LibreOffice 4

The other, more dangerous, possibility is that the link goes to a Windows *.exe file that plants spyware, etc., and then runs the pdf file.

Yes, I was wondering what this deal is too. It could be some kind of visual basic or silverlight deal or some batch file sort of deal.

Why not save a copy from windows.


What is this file and button? Where did you get it from?

Wine fixed it. I installed Adobe Reader with Wine and that solved the problem. Thank you very much.

It's nothing dangerous. It's a correspondence course that I'm doing and when there's a question, there's a "Suggested Answer" button that makes a box appear in the PDF with the answer when it's pressed.

Thanks again for the help!

Thanks for the update. I didn't notice if you had marked this solved.

Oh, I didn't realize I needed to. Done.

Not really needed but we like to see it. Thanks.