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Subject:hyperlinked email hides behind doc From:"James M. Ker" <jmk -at- web -dot- net> To:new techwr-listserv <TECHWR-L -at- LISTS -dot- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 23 Oct 1999 17:43:50 -0400
Hi, folks! Hope your weekend's going smoothly.
My issue is small but irritating: the hyperlink in my PDF doc (built with
Acrobat 4 Distiller) opens up a new email message window, as it should, but
the window opens **behind** the source doc; if you didn't check by
minimizing the doc, you wouldn't know it was there til you closed the doc.
Is there a way to have the email window open in front of the source doc?
There's nothing in our archives or Adobe's User Forum about this, unless
you count the comment that the mailto function is "so browser-dependant it
can't be recommended". Please relieve my irritation with a kind & knowing
response and bear in mind that your help may improve the resumes of
countless other t-whirlers <BG>.
