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Hi,
First of all my background is in GIS/mapping and I have little experience working with PDFs, other than exporting them from GIS software. I am working on a project in which we want to have the user click on a line segment in a PDF, bringing up a list of categories. We then want the user to be able to choose an item from the list, bringing up subcategories, then bring up more subcategories from an option chosen on the previous list. It looks like advanced editing tools in Acrobat allow you to do this; however, I'm not familiar enough with it to even know where to start. Do I use list boxes? It seems like this only allows you to bring up other documents, not another picklist. Help!
Thanks,
Mandy
You could use a multi-level popup menu for the navigation to different categories. See this article at JavaScript Corner for both an explanantion and code example.
http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/js_popup_menus/
Hope this helps,
Dimitri
www.pdfscripting.com
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Edited to add link- oops! Glad you found it anyway :)
Dimitri Munkirs
WindJack Solutions
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