attachments - pdf: very cool....

[David Emme]

--- On 2004-12-28 1:22 PM (-0500), Paul M. Hudy wrote:

>Well....there appears to be a bit troubling (read SHOW STOPPER!) on
>the use of attachments inside Outliner Pro. Or at least very
>different than what I expected, so perhaps someone can verify or
>help me out:
>
>I create an OO doc. I drag/drop a file name from the finder into an
>OO line - an XLS file, for example.
>
>If I make any changes inside the XLS document inside of excel, the
>file or these changes are not updated in the link inside of OO. I
>can open the file inside of XLS and the changes are there. If I open
>the file via the link in OO, what comes up is not the changed file,
>but the older version with the same name.

As it turns out, OO3 makes a copy of any file you drag-and-drop onto
an outline, just as you have experienced.

Buried in the Help file (not in the manual that I could find) is:

    Embedding files versus creating aliases
    ... If you attach a folder, or hold the control key while dropping 
    a file, an alias to the file or folder will be created instead....
    
This seems to work fine for me, and is probably what you want.

HTH,
-Dave
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