" Dropdown"- Menu to navigate inside a Pdf-file???

You could create a standard Acrobat form that had a drop-down menu or a listbox populated with entries that tied to different pages within your PDF. It's not trivial though, for a JavaScript beginner.

[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/js_api_reference.pdf]Acrobat JS API Reference[/url]

Hi Martin,

You could use a "popup menu" as a navigation tool and connect the entries to bookmarks you create for each page of the PDF. See this article at JavaScript Corner for a discussion and example file-
http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/js_popup_menus/

More exmaples can be found at this web page which includes many rich media PDFs that use this type of navigation-
http://www.pdfpictures.com/ebrochures.php

As pointed out by jbfreels, this is not a trivial task and requires some skill with Acrobat JavaScript.

But, a fairly easy way to add navigation to PDFs is to use the Boookmark tool in Acrobat- this is fairly straighforward and instructions can be found in Acrobat's Help file- just do a search for "Bookmark." Maybe not as elegant, but definitely functional.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com

Dimitri, I would like to thank you for your information.
I`ve tried your link to "Thom Parker" and found it very helpful.
But as I`m a beginner, I would like to ask you again, how do I link the single "menue points" to defined pages inside a PDF-document?

I mean, lets say a have Pdf-document containing six pages. So I would use this "DropDownMenu" looking like this: Click on lets say "Index", then would appear lets say "Lookbook" and then I would like to access the pages from one to six.
What would the code look like? Is there a single line of code missing in Thom Parkers Script?

Sorry for asking again. Please excuse my English.

Martin

TryHarder,

I have in the past used "Destinations" for my drop down menus.

I create a Destination for each page or page view that I want to link to, and then create the drop-down menus to link to the destination.

If no one else has, I will try to post the JS sometime tomorrow or this weekend.

L Nail

Inail,
this would be great, looking very much forward.
Thank you advance for your input.
Martin

Martin,

[b]First:[/b] Go to each page, set the page view that you want the end-user to view the page as, and create a "Destination" for the page. (<-- View -> Navigation Panels -> Destinations, then Options -> New Destination). Create all of the Destinations that you want to create links for in your menu.[b]Second:[/b] Go to Advanced -> Document Processing -> Document Javascripts..., then type in a script name, I chose "NavigateMenu" (without the quotes), and click on "Add". In the proceeding window use the following code, adjusted to your needs.[color=#FF0000][b][i]**NOTE**[/b] - Exact spelling and case of the Destination name is required when entering it in the script. Destinations must be in quotes, but CAN have spaces in its name if you have a space in the Destination name. A hypen (-) in quotes can be used for a separator. Start a Sub-Menu within brackets [ ]; the first name will be the name of your sub-menu. It does NOT have to be a destination, NOR if you use a destination will it link to it.[/i][/color]

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function NavigateMenu()
{
var cDest = app.popUpMenu("Destination_1", "-", "Destination_2", ["Name_Of_SubMenu", "Destination_3", "Destination_4"], "-", "Destination_5");

this.gotoNamedDest(cDest)
}

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[b]Third:[/b] Create a button on your page. In the button's properties, click on the "Actions" tab. Choose your "Trigger", select "Run a JavaScript", and click "Add". In the JavaScript window that opens, enter "NavigateMenu()" or whatever you name it.

[b]Fourth:[/b] You can right-click on the button and duplicate it to other pages if you desire.


Hope this helps.

LNail

P.S. My actual script links to over 40 pages, so there is quite a few Destinations and plenty of sub-menus to organize it all. It is quite scalable, in my opinion, and works wonderfully and efficiently.

Inail,
just let me send you a big "Thank you"! for your exellent and detailed explanation. It works wonderfully.
That is, what I was looking for - you see, - I`m a not a "Java-expert"- not even a beginner.

To tune the "PDf-file", is there a "small java-script-extension" to put into your script giving options to change the color of the "popup-menus"- and is there let`s say a "Major-Java-Script" which would disable document-scrolling by "mouse" and "keys". In my opinion, this would greatly enhance a "controlled" "design-experience".

Again, let me thank you for your time and help.

Greetings from Berlin, Martin

This is a very late entry ... but I cannot get any joy out of Adobe and I am desperate .... I have used the navigate menu kindly described above by lnail and am experiencing a very odd result ... the menu works perfectly but pages in the pdf display at a different zoom scale when accessed through the java menu ... Only when scrolled via mouse or other hyper-link the page zoom remains constant. Has anyone else had this problem ??? or is it a bug in Acrobat 9. My document was created in Indesign CS4.

thanks for any help.

Visualine,

As you create your destination, make sure that your page is set at the proper Zoom level when creating the destination. This is a feature, as you may want to focus on specific areas of your page. You could have several destinations on a single page (i.e. Anchors on a web page).

Go to your Destinations tab, click on the Destination that is set improperly, resize your page to "Fit Page", and then under the Destinations tab, right-click on the Destination name, and click "Set Destination".

Hope this helps.

lnail

This is fantastic - its helped me out a great deal too.
Many thanks.
Is there a way of changing the appearance of the menu created, so it matches colours of the document

Demir,

I am unaware of a way to change the appearance of the Drop-down menu. However, should you come across a way to do this, I too would be interested in knowing.

Glad I could be of help.

lnail

It's not possible to change the look of the drop-down menu, but instead of using it you can use a drop-down box from the Forms tools, which can be customized (a bit).

thanks try67. that is very slick!! I did what you suggested and it worked beautifully.





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