Reply to: RE>>Re[2]: Hyperlink revisions

I guess there's no excuse if it's in the documentation. But I read the online
documentation and mistakenly believed I could (and was supposed to) "open the
document" via the Create Link dialog's Action Type option: Open File. I see
now that feature is to be used only if you want to specifically go to the
predefined "open page" (which you can set in Document Info under the File
menu) of the target document. It seemed the obvious route and I took it rather
than reading the instructions carefully. At least one other user out there
apparently reached the same incorrect conclusion--that you can only link
(within Exchange) to the first page of another PDF document. So it might be
worth clarifying in the online documentation that (a) the Create Link dialog's
Action Type option, Open File, is NOT to be used if you want to link to some
page other than page one of another PDF document and (b) you need instead to
use File/Open to access that other document. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to
change the interface (perhaps by having two Open File options, one that
restricts the link to the predefined Open page and one that permits linking to
any page in the file that is opened).

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Date: 8/29/95 2:50 PM
To: Dedrick Howard
From: acrobat@blueworld.com
On August 28, Kelly Hawk wrote:

>
> The only way I know to jump to another page of another PDF is using PDFMark
> commands, which would require re-distilling the original file after
inserting
> the desired commands into the PostScript code. Please share if you know of a

way to set this up using Exchange's interface.


In Acrobat Exchange, choose the Link tool. Draw your link box and allow the
Create Link dialog box to appear. In the Create Link dialog box, leave the
destination at "Go to Page". From the File menu, choose Open. Open your
destination PDF file and go to the page and view you want your link to take
the
reader to. Click Set Link.

This is documented on pp 58-60 in the Exchange on-line Help file. On page 60
it
reads: "(If you are linking to another PDF document, open the document and go
to
the destination page within that document.)"


Sarah Rosenbaum

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