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Portfolio Hyperlinks - A

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2010-08-24 11:51:08
Gary Self
Registered: Aug 24 2010
Posts: 1

Say I create this large policy manual made up of three to four hundred individual policies that are linked to policy change pages, archived policies, forms and www.web links. The web links work great. A given policy may have 10-20 links. All links are created using a relative addressing scheme and I have imported the entire scheme into a portfolio, i.e., I have policies in a policy folder and forms in a forms folder and changes in a change folder and archives in an archive folder. Policies do not change everyday, but do change.

First, it is pretty obvious from my initial take that all my work to create and test all the links is useless in Portfolio, which already makes this product less than great for the very thing you seem to be suggesting it be used for.

That brings the question, if a policy changes and the file is replaced in the portfolio, am I going to have to re-do all the hyperlinks again?

It sure looks like you are pushing this product to be a one-off publisher that does a beautiful job for a 'thingie' of my definition that has lots of bells and whistles. I can even replace a file with a newer version of the file, but if it has links in it, they must be re-created? I wish you could re-think this feature, possibly with a set of link properties or something so that the user can define the inter- and intra-document links on a document and/or portfolio and/or global basis.

Thanks

Gary Self

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Windows
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2010-08-24 15:10:17
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UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
It's been asked before, and the simple answer is that in Acrobat 9, links between member documents in a portfolio have to be created by hand after the documents have been added to the portfolio. We don't support automatic conversion of relative disk-based file links into intra-portfolio "go to page view" destinations, as the member documents can't see each other.
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2011-01-19 12:38:59
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Garrett Fisher
Registered: Jan 19 2011
Posts: 2
Is it possible to create links in a portfolio between a pdf document and an mp3? For example, in the pdf I would like to have "listen" link, and when the person clicks on it, they go to an mp3 that is also stored in the portfolio. How do I go about doing this?
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2011-01-19 12:44:34
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Garrett Fisher
Registered: Jan 19 2011
Posts: 2
PS - I don't want to import an Mp3 onto the page, because the graphic offered by Adobe is somewhat clumsy to operate and doesn't look good; I was going to use my own button.
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2011-01-19 14:53:00
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UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
It's not possible to create an inter-document link whose destination controls a non-PDF file in a PDF Portfolio. Although the PDF Portfolio navigator wraps supported audio and video file types with a player, there is no script control over that player.

If all you want to do is play the sound from within a PDF file, then place it on the page as a rich media annotation using as small a rectangle as possible, and use the "Multimedia Operation" actions of your button to control it.
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