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Display thumbnails of pages and allow selection

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2010-09-25 15:05:35
DanHi
Registered: Sep 25 2010
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I have a set of images (one per page) in my document. I'd like to create a JavaScript item that would display a set of thumbnails in a window, and let the user click on one of them to take them to that page, then have a button on that page that would take them back to where they started.
 
I'm new to JavaScript in adobe, and I looked through the API documentation to see if I could figure out how to do this, but I haven't had any success. Could someone point me in the right direction?
 
Thanks,
 
Dan

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2010-09-26 01:21:00
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try67
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Do you mean that you want to create a JS window that will display the images from your file? I'm afraid that's not possible with a JS script.

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2010-09-26 02:50:12
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
As there is only one image per page, the pages sidebar (that shows thumbnails of each page) already does what you want.

Alternately you could add a page to the start of your document showing a contact sheet of the images, and make each one a link to the page in question. To return to page 1 you'll need to add a link or a button to the other pages, using the advanced editing tools in Acrobat - though if your original document is being assembled in something like InDesign you can create all the links more efficiently there, as you can use master pages.
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2010-09-26 08:43:25
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DanHi
Registered: Sep 25 2010
Posts: 4
I wanted to use the navigation sidebar, but I don't want every image listed, just a subset. I tried the add/delete thumbnails, but that doesn't seem to have any effect on the navigation bar. Any idea what these API do?

Dan Hinsley

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2010-09-26 09:22:03
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
The JS API doc.addThumbnails() method simply creates and stores thumbnail images of a specified page range in the PDF, to save Acrobat or Reader from having to generate them each time the document is opened - it's also an option when printing through Distiller, but it has no effect on what is displayed on screen other than making it a bit faster.

The pages sidebar displays every page in the document, and there is no way to change that.
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