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Full screen PDF- control over viewer navigation

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2008-05-20 05:30:23
designbyjez
Registered: May 20 2008
Posts: 3

Hello everyone

I've made a PDF presentation in Acrobat 8. It will eventually be emailed to over 1000 employees at my clients company but I'm having trouble with default settings.

basically it opens up in full screen mode and the first page has links to various other pages in the PDF - like opening a book at a contents page and chosing which page you want to view first.

The trouble is, although the links work fine, I' ve noticed that If you click anywhere on the screen that is not a link, then the presentation will just jump to the next consecutive page anyway.

This is not the idea. I want viewers to only be able to navigate through the PDF by only using the links I have created. It would be confusing if you could click anywhere and see the next page as the PDF has not been made to be viewed in consecutive page order.

I know that If I go into my preferences it's possible to turn off the capability to just click through the document...but that's just on the computer I'm using.

How can I turn off this feature within the document itself so that it will overide people's individual settings when it arrives on their computer?

Thanks for your time

Jez

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.1, Macintosh
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2008-05-20 08:00:52
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You can turn off the "click advances" in JavaScript for the given PDF or change each user's application preference to disable this feature through the network deployment.

George Kaiser

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2008-05-21 01:30:24
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designbyjez
Registered: May 20 2008
Posts: 3
ok, thanks

simple question coming up...how exactly do you do that? how do you 'turn off' that feature?

thanks
Jez
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2008-05-21 14:39:28
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/js_document_scripts/]Entering Document Scripts[/url] by Thom Parker

// Document Level JavaScript to configure and start full screen mode
if ( this.external == false ) {
// can only run if not within another application like a web browser
// app.fs.backgroundColor = color.ltGray; // set background color
app.fs.clickAdvances = false; // mouse click advances
app.fs.cursor = cursor.invisible; // show cursor
// app.fs.defaultTransition = "WipeDown";
app.fs.escapeExits = true; // escape exits
app.fs.loop = false; // do not loop
// app.fs.timeDelay = 5;// delay 5 seconds
// app.fs.useTimer = true;// activate automatic page turning
// app.fs.usePageTiming = true;// allow page override
app.fs.isFullScreen = true; // go to full screen view
}

George Kaiser

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