Javascript text link in PDF??

Is there a way to insert a javascript text link in a PDF? I've added web links to text, but I just want to insert some javascript so when the user clicks on the text, it runs my script
I post problem in many forums but not got the best answer
any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Possible in Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Reader.

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Is there a way to insert a javascript text link in a PDF? I've added web links to text, but I just want to insert some javascript so when the user clicks on the text, it runs my script
I post problem in many forums but not got the best answer
any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Just create a link with the Link tool and specify a JavaScript action.
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I want to knwon how can I cancel the text-link in pdf forever.
In a pdf , If there is a text like "http://www.adobe.com" ,even it's not a hyperlink,and there is not any action on the text,but it can be clicked.
I have read the "Document management — Portable document format — Part 1:PDF 1.7", I find nothing about this text-link, Is this a function of adobe reader ,or is it required by the PDF format.
I konw adobe reader could turn off the function of text url Identification, then it can not to be clicked ,but what I want to do is cancel the text-link in pdf ,so that whatever is the "text url identification " turned off or turned on , the text can never be clicked.
so,is anybody knwon ,if there is any way to cancel the text-link, to forbiden the text url to be cliecked forever ?
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and I also want to knwon if is it required by the PDF format that the text url without any action (not a hyperlink )can be clicked?
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I have posted this question on reader forum as well, but I think it is more suited here...
I am trying to create a note-taking application in air. I want to extract selected text from pdf file as a string object or to the clipboard.
Obviously, all pdfs in my local storage will not be scripted to recieve postMessages and act accordingly, and that is not practical either. So, my problem is, how can I copy the selected text in the pdf file (opened as an object in htmlloader within my Air app) to clipboard or directly in another control by say clicking a button in air application? I suppose, this is possible using javascript, however, I don't know which reader methods are exposed to the wrapper htmlloader control. In short, I want to execute app.execMenuItem("Copy") command through htmlloader javascript. Any alternate solutions are also welcome.
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Thank you Thom for your reply...
from
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html
...Through JavaScript extensions, the viewer application and its plug-ins expose much of their functionality to document authors, form designers, and plug-in developers...
As it is explicitly mentioned, that the functionality of adobe reader are exposed for plugin development, I thought someone here might have used external javascript to execute some safe methods in adobe reader. The functionality (i.e. external javascript interface-JSObject) is already available for VB programmers to develop IAC. Further, the Acrobat SDK example called "AcroPDFinHML" shows how one can embed a pdf-reader in a html page and execute some safe methods (like gotonextpage(), zooming etc.) in IE as ActiveX plugin. I have checked it myself for adobe reader 9, and it works perfectly, so there is no security issue as such to implement the same for another browser (like in my case, the htmlloader control in flex/air app).
I intend to create a note taking application in air, where it is very much required that I should be able to copy selected text from various pdf documents, that are open in my app, and subsequently paste/collect/save the collected notes and process them afterwords (offcourse, from the pdfs that allow me copying text). However, it is not happening for me here. As the pdfs are opened through adobe reader plugin, it does not register the copy command executed by my air app. It registers the system level copy command (by keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C), but my air app has no way to execute the system level copy command programmatically. So I am kind of stuck here...
Thanks again for your reply. Having known what am I intend to accomplish, any other (may be alternative) solutions will be appreciated nonetheless...
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Hi Irosenth,
I will give a try for this, we must try to certain extent who knows we may Succeed. We must noe give-up easily.
You have not said this is impossible, but you say this is difficult. Rite ??
If you give me support, i dont think it would be difficult.
First i will try to insert a text in a blank page.This is possible rite ??
I saw a discussion in this forum, http://forums.adobe.com/message/2092443#2092443 , this is 2 years old. This guy has inserted the text into PDF document.
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TextCreate() function is same as the one which i mentioned in this discussion. Please let me what i am making wrong in that function aswell. Its not creating the specified "World" pdeText. Please help me out for this. Thanks in advance.
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