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Hi,

I'm wondering if it is possible to have Create buttons usable in a pdf opened in acrobat reader? I know this is possible, of course, but don't know the Create way...

On a related topic, and I'm sure this is a wishlist item -- audio files in a create document which work in pdfs would be awesome.

Thx, Erik.

File -> Save Other -> Save As PDF w/ Links in PStill


You'll also need PStill
http://homepage.mac.com/stone_design/.P ... -08-08.dmg

Thanks Andrew, This almost works. I do get a button on the page, that does something in Adobe Reader and Preview when I click on it. However, there are a couple of problems:

1. the clickable are is not just the button, but a tall strip, just about the width of the button, but shifted to the left, and about half the height of the page. This area reverses color when clicking on the button or the strip.

2. the page does turn, but instead of having the top of the page appear at the top of the window, the top of the page just barely (about 1/34) scrolls into the window, and mostly remains below the fold. I'd hope that it works like the forward/reverse page buttons in reader or preview.

What I'm putting together is a photo + words thing that I'd rather not print but have the reader browse with buttons embedded on the page rather than relying on the reader's ui (which is confusing to some people.)

Thanks,
Erik.

That's good, Andrew, I was looking to see how hot html links were created in pdfs in Create.

adapterik, here is a work-around that you might want to try.

Create your document, including navigation buttons, and embed your rich media files too, while you're at it. Then, export as html using the make CSS option to a local directory. Open it up, find the index page and review that everything is working as it should.

Make a new folder, and drop the exported html folder into it, either Zipped or intact. Make a plain or rich text document, named Read Me First, or whatever you'd like to name it. It should explain that the directory needs to be opened (if applicable) and copied to a drive, and to navigate to the index file to watch it in any browser. Local links like this can also be bookmarked, too, as long as the end user kept the directory somewhere on his computer (flash drive, CD inserted)

Then ZIP that folder all up, and it should be ready for emailing, or archiving to a CD. It's not a pdf, but I think that the effect would be quite similar to what you're looking for.