Is there anyway to tweak Acrobat's built in lookup function. I just discovered this today that if a right click on a word in my pdf acrobat gives me an option to 'look up' the word on dictionary.com. I was hoping I might be able to redirect the url to my companies website where the user could find definitions for complicated financial terms. Any thoughts on tweaking this or building a custom one?
Tweaking the Acrobat "Loop Up" function.
2007-12-20 08:09:52
My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0999999999999996447286321199499070644378662109375, Windows
Acrobat Pro 8.0999999999999996447286321199499070644378662109375, Windows
2007-12-20 11:35:47
#2
oh well - thanks for looking into it.
Do you think that there might be a way to duplicate the functionality with a custom function?
Do you think that there might be a way to duplicate the functionality with a custom function?
2009-04-21 02:52:18
#3
continuing on this theme, this is related to a question i posed yesterday about modifying the UI.
The right-mouse context menu includes this "look up " option which
a) goes to a fixed reference url (dictionary.com) and
b) seems to be selective about what text it includes
i can see why b) makes sense when you (say) hover them mouse over something like a part number on a drawing - its very unlikely this part number would be referenced at dictionary.com, but my application (which embeds acrobat) DOES have information about part numbers etc., so I would like to be able to modify how the "look up" tool works.
it would be fantastic if that (via API) i could reference a callback method against the lookup which the context menu processor calls - my callback gets the reference string and I get to decide
a) should the string be included in the menu (if my app understands part numbers, i could agree to show "lookup A-10029-BERD" or whatever
b) i get to choose HOW the lookup is performed - perhaps via another callback which is passed the string when the user clicks on the menu item - i could then choose to process that lookup request differently to acrobat's default i.e. i would look it up locally, not go to dictionary.com
Having scoured the various API docs, I cant see a way of doing this, but maybe I missed something. Anyone know if this is actually possible (the last post for this thread in was 2007, so i dont know if Adobe have addressed this since?).
Otherwise, is there an established method of proposing 'enhancement requests' to the acrobat team?
cheers
-r
The right-mouse context menu includes this "look up " option which
a) goes to a fixed reference url (dictionary.com) and
b) seems to be selective about what text it includes
i can see why b) makes sense when you (say) hover them mouse over something like a part number on a drawing - its very unlikely this part number would be referenced at dictionary.com, but my application (which embeds acrobat) DOES have information about part numbers etc., so I would like to be able to modify how the "look up" tool works.
it would be fantastic if that (via API) i could reference a callback method against the lookup which the context menu processor calls - my callback gets the reference string and I get to decide
a) should the string be included in the menu (if my app understands part numbers, i could agree to show "lookup A-10029-BERD" or whatever
b) i get to choose HOW the lookup is performed - perhaps via another callback which is passed the string when the user clicks on the menu item - i could then choose to process that lookup request differently to acrobat's default i.e. i would look it up locally, not go to dictionary.com
Having scoured the various API docs, I cant see a way of doing this, but maybe I missed something. Anyone know if this is actually possible (the last post for this thread in was 2007, so i dont know if Adobe have addressed this since?).
Otherwise, is there an established method of proposing 'enhancement requests' to the acrobat team?
cheers
-r
2009-04-21 04:07:39
#4
As to your last question, you can request a feature here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
2009-04-21 04:21:07
#5
fantastic.
thanks for the pointer :)
thanks for the pointer :)
Look like it is what it is and nothing more.
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