RE: Creating Intradocument Links in Adobe Acrobat

["Swallow, William" <WSwallow -at- courion -dot- com>]

Christine wrote:
"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... So I
don't blame you for posting this question. I think Adobe's
documentation failed here."

Not to be a PITA here, but the documentation does a fine job at explaining
how to create links. 
Here it is, with referenced text to boot.

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Creating links

You create links in a document using the link tool. You can specify your
links as visible or
invisible.

To create a link:

1 Navigate to the section of the document where you want to create a link.

2 Select the link tool. The pointer becomes a cross hair (+), and any
existing links in the
document-including invisible links-are temporarily visible.

3 Create the link rectangle in one of the following ways:

  * Drag the mouse to create a marquee.

  * Press Ctrl (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and select the target text with
the I-beam.This
allows you to fit a link rectangle exactly around the selected text.

4 In the Create Link dialog box, choose a rectangle type:

  * Visible Rectangle indicates that the link rectangle is visible. Set the
appearance of the
link rectangle by choosing a width, color, and style.

  * Invisible Rectangle indicates that the link rectangle should be
invisible under normal
circumstances.

5 Select a highlight option for when the link is selected.

  * None does not change the appearance of a link when the link is selected.

  * Invert changes the link's outline color to its opposite when the link is
selected.

  * Outline changes the link's color to its opposite when the link is
selected.

  * Inset creates the appearance of an embossed rectangle when the link is
selected.

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" on page 179.
[Bill's note: see the info included below this procedure.]

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 magnification
options" on page 99. [Bill's note: see the info included below this
procedure.]

8 Click Set Link.

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Using actions for special effects

Acrobat allows you to add special effects to PDF documents.You can specify
that a
particular action will occur when a bookmark, link, or form field is
selected, or when a
page or form is viewed. For example, you can use links and bookmarks to jump
to different
locations in a document, but you can also use them to play movies and sound
clips,
execute commands from a menu, or other actions. Page actions are another way
of
activating special effects in a PDF document. For example, you can specify a
movie or
sound clip to play when a page is opened or closed.

About action types

You can specify actions for links, bookmarks, page actions, buttons, and
other form fields.
To assign an action to a link, you choose an action type from the Actions
menu in the Link
Properties dialog box.To assign an action to a bookmark, you choose an
action type from
the Type menu in the Bookmark Properties dialog box.To assign an action to a
button or
other form field, you choose an action type from the Type menu in the Add an
Action
dialog box. The Add an Action dialog box opens from the form tool Field
Properties
dialog box.

[the document then lists all action types and their use]

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Setting magnification options

You can specify a particular view of a page for the destination of the link,
bookmark, or
thumbnail by setting the magnification for the page.You can choose from any
of the
following options:

Fixed Displays the magnification level and page position that were in effect
when you
created the link or bookmark as the destination. Use the zoom tool, the view
buttons in
the tool bar, the status bar, or the scroll bar to adjust the view before
accepting this
setting.

Fit View Displays the visible portion of the current page as the
destination.The magnifi-
cation level and window size vary with monitor resolution.

Fit in Window Displays the current page in the destination window.

Fit Width Displays the width of the current page in the destination window.

Fit Height Displays the height of the current page in the destination
window.

Fit Visible Displays the width of the visible contents of the current page
in the desti-
nation window.This usually means the margins are not displayed.

Inherit Zoom Displays the destination window at the magnification level the
reader is
using when they click the link or bookmark.

Note: When you specify a magnification setting for a link or bookmark, it is
inherited by all
subsequent links and bookmarks you create until you change it.

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