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carolynmarshall
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| Subject: | Hyperlink from somewhere else to a place in a PDF? Need help ASAP |
Need help right away.
They want to do this today.
We send out ecommunications that have links to a newsletter that has articles in it. There are links within the PDF from a toc to the articles.
Now, I'm being asked if we can set the ecommunication up to have a link that will take them to an article within the PDF newsletter.
I know we can link to the pdf, but can we link to someplace within that PDF? Using a bookmark?
| Posted: 21 Jul 2006 02:15 AM |
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gkaiseril
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| Subject: | Hyperlink from somewhere else to a place in a PDF? Need help ASAP |
You can create an "Article", "Destination" or a "Snapshot" for the location you want to bookmark or link to. Then you can create a bookmark or link or you can specify a page number to go to. Using the "Article" tool will let you control reading columns in the flow of the column.
Posted: 21 Jul 2006 02:55 AM
Originally Posted: 21 Jul 2006 02:54 AM |
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carolynmarshall
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| Subject: | Hyperlink from somewhere else to a place in a PDF? Need help ASAP |
OK. I'm looking at some books about Articles, Destination (which appears to be part of Articles) and Snapshot.
Snapshot appears to be a way of copying text/images from the PDF. I don't get how I could use this.
Re: Articles. In my newsletter would I open the articles tab, with the articles tool draw a square around say, the title of the article I want to go to. I see I can give it a name, say Article1. Can the person in their ecommunication then create a link to that Article1. If so, they would put in http://the link to the pdf complete newsletter.then what?
| Posted: 21 Jul 2006 03:10 AM |
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gkaiseril
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| Subject: | Hyperlink from somewhere else to a place in a PDF? Need help ASAP |
If the article is within the PDF:
1. Create the article with the name of your choice.
2. Create a new bookmark in the "Bookmark" palette and give it a meaningful name.
3. Highlight the bookmark and open the options window.
4. On the "Actions" tab select the "Read an article" for the "Select action:" option.
5. Select the article to read.
6. Close all the pop up windows.
| Posted: 21 Jul 2006 04:16 AM |
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carolynmarshall
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| Subject: | Hyperlink from somewhere else to a place in a PDF? Need help ASAP |
OK. Tried your suggestion. However, we want the user to be able to click in the ecommunication and go directly to the article, not the bookmark and then have to click the bookmark. We're sure they won't get that.
Can we include a reference in the url that would go directly to the article?
Thanks so much for your help and quick responses. I'm singing your praises to everyone I'm doing this for.
| Posted: 21 Jul 2006 04:57 AM |
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gkaiseril
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| Subject: | Hyperlink from somewhere else to a place in a PDF? Need help ASAP |
In that case you will have to use the "Destinations". There may be an issue since with version 7 hypertext links with open parameters only works from web servers or the command line. This behavior is different from the prior versions of Acrobat/Reader which would work within MS Office documents. You can try it in an e-mail. An alternative might be to link to an HTML page of the newsletter and then link into the PDF or have an HTML of the newsletter and a downloadable PDF.
You can download a free copy of PDF Open Parameters at the Advanced Acrobat user documents to see what all the open options are.
| Posted: 21 Jul 2006 05:27 AM |
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carolynmarshall
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| Subject: | Hyperlink from somewhere else to a place in a PDF? Need help ASAP |
Thanks so much for your help.
In the meantime I found info about Destinations and have that working.
Thanks for the warnings about how it works with open parameters. This is going to a web site. We tested and it worked fine.
Tnanks again. You're so wonderful to respond so quickly.
| Posted: 21 Jul 2006 05:40 AM |
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carolynmarshall
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| Subject: | Hyperlink from somewhere else to a place in a PDF? Need help ASAP |
Well, I take it back. It worked fine for me and our Web person. But another test didn't work.
Though even the Web person had to click it twice. 1st time went to a blank page. 2nd time went to correct page of PDF. When I did it worked right the 1st time.
The 2nd person we asked to test clicked and it went no where.
| Posted: 21 Jul 2006 06:43 AM |
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carolynmarshall
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| Subject: | Hyperlink from somewhere else to a place in a PDF? Need help ASAP |
Well here's how it finished out.
It worked for everyone (even sent to someone at another company) except a person at our Help Desk and the person I'm doing the job for.
Decision made to not do it this way. I'll set up a template for an individual article, then when we do the newsletter will copy each article into it's own doc, then PDF, then link to those PDFs on the ecommunication.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP. Has been a wonderful learning experience.
Maybe I won't be bugging you guys for a while.
| Posted: 22 Jul 2006 01:33 AM |
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