Ted Padova’s AUC Blog

Lori DeFurio has a nice post on setting up URL links in PDFs to view PDF files with a number of different options such as jumping to a specific page, opening the Bookmarks panel, and more. Check out her blog post at: Linking to specific pages in a PDF.

What’s mentioned in Lori’s post has to do with appending the open parameter using the Open a web page action in Acrobat. If you want to open a PDF in a new browser window from a PDF viewed in a browser window, you need a little help using JavaScript.

Create a button field or link and in the Action tab, select Run a JavaScript from the Select Action pull-down menu. Click the Add button to open the JavaScript Editor and type the following code in the Editor window:

app.launchURL(”http://www.mycompany.com/pdfDocument.pdf”, true);

In the above code, replace www.mycompany.com with your URL. Replace pdfDocument.pdf with the name of the PDF you want to open. The true statement triggers opening the PDF in a new browser window.

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Acrobat 8 has a number of enhancements not included on everyone’s top ten lists. One of these is a set of new commands that enable you to resize, rotate, and crop images right in Acrobat. To start with, take a look at the link below demonstrating resizing images in Acrobat 8.

Scaling Images.htm

Part II of the video shows you how to crop and rotate images in Acrobat 8.

cropRotate.htm

Here are a few tips on creating and ordering bookmarksfor novice users.

Click below to open the Flash file.

bookmarks.htm

Here’s a quick tip for those who want to add a line of text to a page. Using the Typewriter tool limits you to a single font selection. This tip gives you more control over setting font attributes.

Click the link below to play the Flash movie file.

New Text.htm

The Acro Short Tips section on my blog is an area where you can find some tips and tricks using Acrobat. These tips are limited to short narrations and video files assembled in Adobe Captivate. Hopefully the videos will improve as soon as I become more familiar with the program.