Re: making a CD-ROM

One way to cover the compatability issue is to include a copy of IE6 on the
CD, and you can also include a copy of the latest acrobat reader. If it
really bugs you, you can include a readme file for the acrobat reader that
will instruct the user how to install it so that it integrates with Netscape
and doesn't open in a separate program. As for the doc files, there's
nothing much you can do about that. Word should integrate with IE 4 at the
least, but I've never seen a setting hat you can alter, and I've seen
various systems where it is integrated and where it is not. Not sure how
this occurs. Another solution would be to dump the doc files and convert
them to pdf. You can still have links to other files in pdfs, and if you
have forms in the docs, you can make forms in acrobat too.

Hope this helps, and good luck :)
____________________________________________
Tamara Jackson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Ruth-Heffelbower" <duanerh(at)fresno.edu>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:36 AM
Subject: making a CD-ROM


> I've built an intranet site which is a couple of html pages linking to
lots
> of .doc, .xls, .pdf and image files. I am now required to dump the whole
> thing onto CD-ROM to be sent all over the country. My test disk works
great
> with links in the .doc files to other .doc files and such, so long as I
use
> IE6 on a PC which opens everything within the browser. NN4x on a PC
instead
> opens the native programs for each document and breaks the link by
inserting
> a /temp/into the link. The iMAC I tried adds a tilde to the long file
names
> and breaks the links.
>
> It seems to me that going to 8 character names might cure the Mac, but the
> NN 4x issue has got me. The people receiving this disk will have many
> different systems so I have to be broadly compatible. Help!
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Duane Ruth-Heffelbower, Webmaster and Distance Education Coordinator
> Fresno Pacific Graduate School
> Fresno Pacific University   www.fresno.edu/grad
>

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