Maximum Cross Platform Compatability
I am working on a CD project where I assemble a PDF document containing a table of contents that links to several hundred technical papers. The Papers then link back to the TOC so a user can look for other papers. It also has a search index. All of this works perfectly, however they desire it to work on PC, MAC and Unix. I keep all the files in 8.3 character format and all capital letters and burn the disk to ISO-9660.
I was wondering if anyone had any advice or warnings to ensure maximum compatability. I am using Acrobat 5 for PC to do this as many of the users still have 4.0 and I find in 6.0 when I save down compatabilty, the user still gets warning messages, which is not desirable.
My main concern is the Catalog files. I can save all the files I do myself in 8.3 and all CAPS for ISO-purposes, but the directories generated (morgue etc.) for the PDX file although are 8.3, are all lower case. When I burn in IS0-9660 format and it changes them to CAPS, will that break the index in Unix?
I also find Acrobat 6 for OSX refuses to read the 5.0 generated PDX, but the PC version will. Sorry to ramble, but anyone experience doing similar projects would be invaluable.
Cheers!
Jeremy
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:52:41 -0700