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microsoft publisher - will links broken burn on cd?
delphinus
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hi,
im actually doing this for a lady friend in PDP right now (becoming a teacher). and she has to hand in this paper of hers on microsoft publisher. from what she tells me, all her work is done on her laptop and her burner is busted. but that can all be remedied with an SD drive.
the problem that she came to me with is if she could burn her project onto a cd/dvd, [this is where the wording is gonna get a little confusing sorry.] would publisher recognize the links shes made to articles while on the cd? or will it try to link to the articles still on the computer making busted links in the project?
im sure powerpoint presentations on cd have run into the same problems without the pictures actually being on the disc.
she says shes almost sure that it will make broken links. so is there an easy solution to this? keep in mind this is a year long project so im assuming theres lots of articles that she has linked to.
does she have to burn them onto the cd as well? but even then, how do you link to articles that are 'on a cd' that hasnt been burned yet. [confusing much?]
any help would be appreciated
im actually doing this for a lady friend in PDP right now (becoming a teacher). and she has to hand in this paper of hers on microsoft publisher. from what she tells me, all her work is done on her laptop and her burner is busted. but that can all be remedied with an SD drive.
the problem that she came to me with is if she could burn her project onto a cd/dvd, [this is where the wording is gonna get a little confusing sorry.] would publisher recognize the links shes made to articles while on the cd? or will it try to link to the articles still on the computer making busted links in the project?
im sure powerpoint presentations on cd have run into the same problems without the pictures actually being on the disc.
she says shes almost sure that it will make broken links. so is there an easy solution to this? keep in mind this is a year long project so im assuming theres lots of articles that she has linked to.
does she have to burn them onto the cd as well? but even then, how do you link to articles that are 'on a cd' that hasnt been burned yet. [confusing much?]
any help would be appreciated
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Most any burners let you leave the CD open to burn more later before closing the CD.
edit: but yea If your linking to something its gonna need to be on there. If the articles are online though I guess you wouldn't need to worry about that.
If the former, you'd need to either make relative links if the files are stored locally (eg, if the file was in the same route directory as the publisher file you'd just link it directly as file.fil, or if it was inside a folder inside the same location as the publisher file you'd link it as resources/file.fil where resources is the folder and file.fil is your file name). I'm not sure if that's even something you can do in publisher though. I guess hyperlinks work in word.
If the later - where it's images, PDFs etc. embedded in the document - then you'd either need to make sure that publisher embeds them (not sure if this is a feature), supply them on the CD in the same location relative to the document as they are on the PC* or export the document to a format where all linked images become embedded by default (such as a PDF).
*This is where good file management comes into play. If you're doing a layup for publication of any sort, you ought to keep all your linked images etc. in a subfodler of the folder your main document is in. Most DTP programs will consider links to be relative rather than absolute, so they will always look for the file in a location relative to the documents location rather than always looking at C:\folder\folder\file.fil every time.