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Creating Easy Navigation with Articles / Links to Control Articles




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OK. So as mentioned, we want to set up two more hyperlinks; one to read the main content article and a second one to read the sidebar articles. OK. So I'm going to head to my Advanced Editing Toolbar. I'll just pull them up here so we can see where we are. I'm going to grab my Link Tool in the Advanced Editing Toolbar and I'm going to go and set up my first hyperlink; the link to read the main content. And by the way, these buttons here, where did they come from? I cooked them up in about 30 seconds in Photoshop so you're going to need some buttons there. You're going to have to create yourself some buttons somewhere. Alright. Inside the Create Link Dialog Box you know all about your link appearance so we don't really need to talk about that. For the action, the Link Action it's going to a Custom Link and then click on Next and then over to the Actions Tab. OK. From our Select Action Drop-Down Menu, the action that we're after now is one called Read an Article. Maybe you eyeballed this command from one of earlier lessons. I have no idea. But we're going to go with Read and Article and then don't forget to click on Add. Now, I get this dialog box that comes up that says alright, which article do you want to use? So it's going to list out all the articles that we've created inside the current PDF file. So this button is going to read the main content articles so that I've got that guy selected. I'm going to click on OK and then OK one more time and before I test him out, let's go and set up our second link. So same story. I'm still on the Link Tool on the Advanced Editing Toolbar so I'll click and drag out my box for the sidebar button and same story. Link Appearance, no big deal. Custom Link for the Link Action. Next. Actions and the same action. We're going to go with Read an Article. Don't forget to click on Add and then it's the Sidebars Article that I want this button to take us to. I'll click on OK and then OK one more time, back to the Hand Tool. Let's test the whole thing out. Close out of the Advanced Editing Toolbar as well. I'll try out the first guy here. I'll click on him. That takes me down to the beginning of the first article and of course I can read through that article if I want something like this. Perfect. Let's go and test out the second guy. I'm going to scroll back up to the top of Page 1, Read the Sidebars. I'll single click on him, takes me down to the first frame of the second article and of course I can read through that article if I want. Looks like it's not playing nice here for me, but you get the idea here. There it is there, something like that. Alright, so you can always set up hyperlinks to read through your articles inside your PDFs. I hope you enjoyed this lesson on Articles and again, as always, I hope you can implement this into your PDFs.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 9
Author: Geoff Blake
SKU: 33985
ISBN: 1-935320-40-8
Release Date: 2009-04-10
Duration: 7 hrs / 106 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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