Unable to open .ai files (Illustrator) from excel!!!
Hi to all.
I'm new in the forum and the illustrator.
I face an issue
I have create an excel file with a description and a hyperlink.
With this way the user is able to open all the file that was able to open in only one excel.
So far everything is OK.
My problem is this. i have add 3 new lines for 3 adobe illustrator files.
when the user make a click in the hyperlink open the adobe illustrator but is empty.
They don't opening the file that i have add in the hyperlink. (It happens only in the .ai files all the other files .pdf - .doc - .jpg opening without any problem)
I use windows XP with SP3 and adobe illustrator CS5
PS If the Illustrator is minimized all the links open without any issue!!!!!!
Thanks and regards.
Re: Unable to open .ai files (Illustrator) from excel!!!
I used to be OK in Excel but that was ten years ago but if I can remember correctly your hyper-link file must be in the common folder and that only works for Excel sheets (could be wrong though). I am also not sure that Excel will understand the .ai file but it should understand an external link to a server when published to html. This means that your .ai file must be uploaded to the linked sever through your html editor when the web page is published so I would suggest that you have a look there.
I may have mis-interparated your question so please come back if I have please come back. If I haven't do a search in Google on "Hyper linking in Excel through html" or something like that.
Re: Unable to open .ai files (Illustrator) from excel!!!
Sorry I had a memory laps I should have mentioned that Excel is so much better at handling PDF's rather than .ai file so change your save from AI to PDF.
Re: Unable to open .ai files (Illustrator) from excel!!!
May be the security issue. Please check the security settings on the spreadsheet.