Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Creating Web links in a standard PDF file


You can have Acrobat 6 convert all complete URL addresses (ones that follow the full format that includes http:// in the address) entered in a standard PDF file (one not created with the Web Capture feature) into active hyperlinks by choosing Advanced➪Links➪Create from URLs in Document. To have Acrobat scan all the pages of the document for URLs to convert to live Web links, click the OK button. To have the program convert the URLs on just some of the pages in the PDF document, select the From radio button and enter the page number of the first and last page in the From and To text boxes, respectively.
After Acrobat 6 has converted the URLs on the specified pages of the PDF file to active links, you can follow the links by clicking them with the Hand-with pointing-finger mouse pointer. Note that when following the Web links you add in this manner, Acrobat uses the Web link behavior that’s in effect at that time. This is indicated by the icon that’s added to the Hand-with-pointing-finger mouse pointer: The appearance of a plus sign (+) means the page will be downloaded and added to the PDF file, whereas a W indicates that the page will open in your Web browser.

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