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Peter Shea asked how to create links within a PDF file.
What you want to do is this:
Select the Link button (looks like a chain) and then click and drag to draw
a rectangle where you want the link to be.
In the Create Link dialog box, the action type "Go to View."
Navigate--scroll, page-down, whatever--to the destination you want to set
for the link. Do this while the Create Link dialog box is still on the
screen. (Not exactly intuitive. How often does one scroll through a doc
when a dialog box is open??)
Fiddle with the settings if you want. Set the Appearance Type to "Invisible
Rectangle" if you don't want to see a box around your link.
Click "Set Link."
That should do it.
I see two other people have already advised you (politely) to RTFM. For
what it's worth, I can see why reading the docs didn't help much. For those
following along at home, the Adobe doc has this:
6 Choose an action type. This specifies the action that occurs when the
link is
selected. For more information, see Using actions for special effects.
Note: If you want to link your PDF document with another PDF document, use
the Go To View action. Open the file in Acrobat and then navigate to the
location where you want it to open.
7 Choose a magnification option. This allows you to control the view that
appears when the link is selected. For more information, see Setting
magnifi-cation
options.
8 Click Set Link.
Since what most people have in mind when creating links is "go to page X
within this PDF file" I can't fathom why their note only covers linking to
*another* document. When I encountered this, I read up to "If you want to
link your PDF document with another PDF," thought "Nope," and skipped the
rest of the note. The rest of the note would have been a useful hint... if
I had read it.
Following their link to "Using actions for special effects" isn't exactly
intuitive when you're trying to do something that you don't normally
consider a special effect. Ick.
The crucial step here--navigating to the destination you want to set for
your link--is hidden at the end of a note that *does not apply* to your
scenario.
So I don't blame you for posting this question. I think Adobe's
documentation failed here.
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