mac and pc executables opening PDF

[lammy1969]

I've searched and read many answers to my question but nothing seems to working.

I have to create a CD with both mac and PC executables. Within these I have to open a number of PDFs. I've tried:


on(release){
getURL("pdfs/worldwide.pdf", "_blank");
}

but it doesn't work. If I upload the PDF to a server and try this


on(release){
getURL("mydomainame/pdfs/worldwide.pdf", "_blank");
}

It works. Why can't the executable launch the PDF locally?

Does anyone have an alternative solution?

Many thanks in advance.

[Paul Ferrie]

Have you checked out any of these?
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=open+pdf+from+flash+projector&aq=1&aqi=g2&aql=&oq=open+pdf+from+flas&gs_rfai=

[northcode]

getURL("/test.pdf", "_blank") works for me on Windows (I have a test.pdf file in the root of my C: drive). If you can't get that to work you can use fscommand EXEC with a BAT file (Windows) or an AppleScript (Mac) to launch your PDF. You'll need one BAT/SCPT file per PDF that you want to open because you can't pass parameters via fscommand.