Synchronous scrolling of two documents side by side

There is a JavaScript doc object property named scroll; you may make use of it. It may require some additional programming (to catch the "scroll" on the "master" document to pass it on to the subsequent document. Or you create a "control" document which talks to and controls both documents.

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Max Wyss.

Thanks for your suggestion. Is this documented somewhere? I don't know JavaScript and don't want to have to write code to have do synchronous scrolling of two documents. As I said, I can get there via Compare. I'm just wondering is there another way, within Acrobat as it stands, to do this?

The answer is no. I'm not even sure this can be done with a script...

It could be emulated by a third document which you would use to control the scrolling. You "attach" the documents to compare to it (you set the connection by getting the doc objects of the attached documents). Then you have buttons to scroll by a certain amount, and you apply that to both documents.

Documentation on how to accomplish it: You might look at the openDoc method, as well as at zoom and scroll entries in the Doc object section of the Acrobat JavaScript documentation.

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Hope this can help.

Max Wyss.