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Using the link tool across multiple pages?

Owen828
Registered: Jan 15 2009
Posts: 8
Answered

Can someone help me please?

I have a 128 page PDF with a picture on exactly the same location on each page. I want to apply a link to a website from this image.

Is there a way of doing this across the whole PDF rather than do one page (painstakingly!) at a time?

Thanks

gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
You can use Acrobat's JavaScript to add a link to a PDF. The Acrobat JavaScript Reference has 2 examples of manipulating links. The first example under the "addLink()" method shows how to add links to each page and the next example shows how to set the link action to get a specific URL address.

George Kaiser

Owen828
Registered: Jan 15 2009
Posts: 8
Thanks for the reply.

I'm running standard, not professional though. Is there a way of doing it without using Javascript?
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
If you have access to the source file & its authoring application perhaps you could set up the link(s) there.
Upon conversion to PDF the links would be present.

Or, as the graphic has the same location on all pages, perhaps use of the Button tool on the Forms tool bar could be used.
If the Forms tool bar is available in Standard try this.

Use the Button tool to place an appropriately sized button over the image on page 1.
In the Button Properties dialog:
Under the Appearance tab -
Leave Border Color and Fill Color selected to None (the default settng).

Under the Actions tab -
Leave Select Trigger at its default (Mouse Up).
For Select Action, from the drop down menu select Open a Web Link.
Click the Add... button.
In the Edit URL dialog window, enter your URL.
Click Ok.

Under the General tab -
If desired, rename the default Name of the button.

Click Close.

Right Click on the Button field to open the context menu.
Select Duplicate.
In the Duplicate Field dialog, leave the default "All" setting selected.
Click OK.

The button, with the "link" is now placed over each page's graphic.

Be well...

Be well...

rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
excellent post, Dave. you nailed it. we all appreciate your skillful responses to the forum.
Owen828
Registered: Jan 15 2009
Posts: 8
Thanks. Sadly forms are not available in standard - looks like I'll be doing it by hand!

Appreciate your efforts though.