Saturday, November 24, 2007

How to enable specific page bookmarking to online PDF?

Web browsers are normally unable to bookmark online PDF pages, use this tips to fix that.
  • Goto http://www.pdfhacks.com/shortcuts/ , download shortcuts-1.0.zip.
  • Extract and copy 'shortcuts.api' file to the Acrobat's plug_ins folder. The folder is usually located in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\plug_ins\
  • Restart Acrobat
  • There would be a submenu in Acrobat Plug-Ins menu and a new button called 'Create Shortcut to This Page' in the navigation toolbar
How to use this new feature?
When you find the PDF page you like, click the new button and an internet shortcut would appear in the bookmark folder of your browser. When you activate this bookmark, the web browser will automatically goto the specific page of an online PDF, instead go to the front page of the online PDF file.

You can convert this bookmark to Mozilla by selecting File>Export and Import in Internet Explorer.
However if the browser unable to display the bookmarked page after you run the bookmark, try these tips.
  • In Internet Explorer, your browser should be configured to open shortcut in new window configure by opening Tools Internet Options . . . Advanced and then removing the checkmark next to the "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts" option.
  • On Mozilla, click the Reload button or select View Reload after you activate a shortcut.

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks Bali! Great tip!
Will definitely have to try this
and pass it on!
~Linda~
www.coolonlinetools.com