Re: buttons v bookmarks: which is more user friendly

[Chris Gooch <chris -dot- gooch -at- lightworkdesign -dot- com>]

Rick wrote:

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When I took over our PDF Documentation Library, I added four buttons at the
top of every page. One was a Print button because people couldn't figure out
how to print a PDF page within a browser. The other three buttons opened
some "help" files, which are simple PDF files that help them use the
library.
I created the buttons using forms in Acrobat. I put them on the first page
and then duplicated them to all the pages in the PDF file.
As our library has continued to grow, this process has become more and more
tedious. I'd like to use a batch sequence in Acrobat to add those buttons to
every page in a file, but I don't know JavaScript.
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Rick, waddya doing, asking a technical technical writing question instead
of warbling on about favourite dogwalking classes?  Are you sure you're
in the right forum?   :-) :-) 

I use buttons too, I think they are definitely a good idea; Adobe's user
interface
is nearly as odd and irritating as their next to useless documentation, and
seriously lets PDF down.

My suggestion is not to use Acrobat to do it. I presume you are using Frame,
given your email address. What I suggest is, you open your old pdf file
(the one which had the buttons) in a text editor. Find the bit of code that
does the buttons; as one of your buttons does a print you should find
some code with the command "Print"  in the middle of it; most likely the
other
buttons will include the command "Link".

I'm not a Frame expert but there must surely be a way that you can arrange
for the relevant chunk of text to be written out to the PDF file, isn't
there?
I suppose the best way to do that would depend on how you create PDF
from Frame. You'd have to ask someone who knows more about Frame
than me, I'm afraid.

Or, if all else fails, take a look at LaTeX, where all of this stuff is
properly
supported :-)


cheers,
Chris.

Christopher Gooch, Technical Author
LightWork Design, Sheffield, UK.
www.lightworkdesign.com


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