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Custom Annotation Types?

RamonFHerrera
Registered: Aug 21 2007
Posts: 10

Can some kind reader comment on PDF's Custom Annotation Types?

My objective is to programmatically insert several links of different types in my PDF files. I intend to have a type for voice phone numbers, another for fax numbers, and yet another company or client ID, etc.

The part below refers to a plugin (to be written).

Later on, when the user clicks on a phone number, a call will be placed, clicks on a fax number will result in the document being faxed, while a click on an ID will result on a database lookup.

I don't want to go through the hassle of studying the page's geometry to determine whether a phone number is voice or fax. I am just looking for a way to mark the different links, giving each one of them a type, which will be passed to the plugin upon a link being clicked.

TIA!

-Ramon

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.1, Windows
tplumer
Expert
Registered: Dec 1 2005
Posts: 122
Hi, your question is beyond Annotations. I would recommend that you look at Adobe's developer resources:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/

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