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Links - Copy/Paste between PDFs

Registered: Jun 20 2010
Posts: 11
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Hi All,

Would like to know if i can copy/paste links from one PDF to another - but exactly to thesame place as in original documents.

So i have 5 exactly the same PDFs from Layout, but each of them is in another language (Page 1 SLO.pdf, Page 1 GER.pdf, Page 1 USA.pdf etc.). As the links for the products shows to the same webshop, i want to create links only in the PDFs with primary language (Page 1 SLO.pdf) and then copy paste to another PDFs (Page 1 GER.pdf, Page 1 USA.pdf etc.).

But if i do this with link selection tool, i can copy all the links in primary pdf, but when i paste the links in another PDF they appear at random position... A would like the pasted links to appear exactly in the same position as in original document.

Any idea?

Br,

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Macintosh
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Quote:
Would like to know if i can copy/paste links from one PDF to another - but exactly to thesame place as in original documents.
No.

With that said, the idea of parking an annotation (the "link" is a type of annotation that is associated with PDF page content) has been discussed in the AUC JavaScript Forum.
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewforum.php?id=25]JavaScript Forum[/url]

My take on what I have read is that something might be done with Acrobat JavaScript.
However, my impression is that it is not a particularly "simple task".


Using testing copies of your PDF files you might play with this:

Open a PDF that has the links.
Use the replace page feature of Acrobat (in Pro - do not know if Standard has this).
Replace the viewed page of the open PDF with the page of the PDF that does not have the links.
Page content is replaced. Link annotations remain.

You may have to adjust placement.
This is to be expected.
Text strings of like/similar content but in different languages will never have 100% congruency from line to line.

The English "caleb has blue eyes" is "caleb ha blou wowo" in Papiamento.
The character strings are off by one.
Are larger delta would be a resonable expectation as words flow to sentences then to paragraphs, no?

Be well...

Be well...

Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
jani [at] webpro [dot] si wrote:
But if i do this with link selection tool, i can copy all the links in primary pdf, but when i paste the links in another PDF they appear at random position... A would like the pasted links to appear exactly in the same position as in original document.
Any idea?
Hi,

There is no "Paste in place" in Acrobat.
So, using the link tool: create a new dumb link in the upper left corner of the page, then "Select all" (Command/CTRL + A), copy, paste on the other page and place links at the upper left corner of the page.

Then, you just have to delete the dumb linkā€¦

;-)))
Registered: Jun 20 2010
Posts: 11
Hi,

Do you know any plugin or externall software that can do it?


Br,
Registered: Jun 20 2010
Posts: 11
Hi,

another question, is it posiblle to automatically create the "dumb" link with javascript for all PDFs in selected folder?

If yes, then i can just move (without creating one) the "dumb" up/left, select all links and copy/paste in another PDF?

Br,
Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
jani [at] webpro [dot] si wrote:
another question, is it posiblle to automatically create the "dumb" link with javascript for all PDFs in selected folder?
Sure, some of the JavaScript gurus around here should help you to achieve this.
(I can't since I'm not a JavaScript specialist).
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Look up the addLink method of the Document object to find out how to add an empty link to a document.

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