I am going to be a speaker at a continuing legal education conference, on using Acrobat with hyperlinks to a main Court case summary. The other Court opinions would be in the same folder as .pdf files. It works great for me, including Search, Sticky notes, Bookmarks and highlighting.
The issues I would like to answer for people are: 1) Can I update the case summary without manually re-entering all the hyperlinks? Can I copy to a word processor or some other way, revise the case summary and then migrate the links somehow to the revised document? Same with the stickies and the bookmarks.
2) Can I copy the whole folder, with all the .pdfs including the case summary and the Court opinions, to a CD?
I am a big Acrobat fan, and I would like to make sure people know the full functionality of Acrobat.
Ed Detlie
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1. The "Replace Pages" menu item under the "Document" menu will replace the page background text without changing any of the links, form fields, notes, or any other interactive elements. When you recreate the case summary, write it to new file name like "CaseSum_Update.pdf". Then import this file into the original with the links by using the "Replace Pages" command.
1. Since the files are exteranal to the Case Summary PDF the links are implemented with a relative Path and the file name. As long as all the files move around together the links will work. You can also replace linked files with new ones and as long as the file names are exactly the same the link in the Case Summary will still work.
The best way to find the limits of this kind of linking is to try it out.
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