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Any OSX alternative to Evermap AutoBookmark?

giordanogalli
Registered: Jun 28 2011
Posts: 3
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Hello
 
I'm trying to find software for OSX that will allow me to efficiently change the appearance of links the way AutoBookmark does. By 'efficiently' I mean a substantial improvement on multiple-clicks per single-link procedures à la PitStop.
Does anyone know of such a product?
 
Thank you very much.
  
Giordano

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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
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What types of changes are you after, exactly?

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giordanogalli
Registered: Jun 28 2011
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try67 wrote:
What types of changes are you after, exactly?
Thank you for your reply.

I'd like to set the appearance of all Link annotations to no border and invert highlighting mode; I also need to assign a certain colour to the text that was selected with Acrobat's Text Selection Tool when the link was created. I think this is the example given under "Changing Links Visual Appearance" at http://www.evermap.com/autobookmark.asp.

Btw, I'd be happy to do this programmatically through JavaScript if somebody could point me in the right direction (sorry, I just started learning this stuff).

Thank you again.


Giordano

try67
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You can change the links' border width to 0 and highlight mode to Invert using JS, but you can't change the color of the underlying text. It might be possible using an external application, though. If you're interested in that, send me an email (my address appears below).

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giordanogalli
Registered: Jun 28 2011
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try67 wrote:
You can change the links' border width to 0 and highlight mode to Invert using JS, but you can't change the color of the underlying text.
Thank you very much, this would definitely improve my situation. Do you know of any snippets out there that would get me started off?


try67 wrote:
It might be possible using an external application, though. If you're interested in that, send me an email (my address appears below).
Much appreciated. Unfortunately everything I do is low budget, I'm pretty sure I couldn't afford it. Out of curiosity, would this be done exploiting some relation between the annotation and the source text or would it have to rely on the position of the text?


Giordano

try67
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Read up on the Link object in the JS reference files.

I'm not sure yet, but it will probably use the annotation's position to find the text and then change its color.

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