Pdf link in a document

How can I put a pdf document icon inside a pages document so that you can click on it and open up a the pdf document separately? In other words, I don't want the pdf document to actually be laid out in the pages document, I just want the pdf icon put in so that someone can choose to read the extra material. Every time I try, it just inserts the first page of the pdf into the pages document, not what I want. I'm using Pages '08

Embed the Pages document in the .pdf?
No
Turn the Pages document into a .pdf and and link from/to another .pdf?
Yes.
Drag a .pdf file into a Pages document?
Yes, but you only get the 1st page, unless you drag a specific page from Preview .apps' sidebar.
Peter

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Hello
I created a pdf document with internal links to different parts of the document. However, when I published it in Acrobat.com to share it, the links are no longer operational. Is there a way to keep the links operational when being viewed online? (Once you download them they're usable again)
Thanks, Daniel

Hi dalvo2002,
I'm sorry, but links aren't rendered in the file previews that you see on Acrobat.com. The links aren't removed from the file (as you've discovered), they just aren't included in the preview.
Best,
Sara

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My boss asked me to alter all the pages on our website so
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were many PDF
file links on a page, I would instead notify users at the
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so then I
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determined the
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link and the PDF
icon, but still prevent the icon from being "orphaned" to
it's own line,
which my boss doesn't want.
All of this work seems to go against the KISS principle that
I have been
striving for (keep it simple stupid), and I wonder about how
this custom
icon link stuff is going to turn on me in the future. I guess
this is
probably more a rant than anything. Anyone else have
experience with similar
issues? Feel free to comment or add your own client's
anti-KISS requests
here.

.oO(Mike Z)
>My boss asked me to alter all the pages on our website so
that links to PDF
>files would be identified with an icon after each link.
I sometimes use a PDF icon before the link and informations
about the
file size after it.
>In the past I put "(PDF file)" after each link, and that
text itself would
>link to a descriptor page of what PDF files are.
Is OK, even if I would most likely not always link to the
descriptor
page. Just something like
<a href="document.pdf">title</a> (PDF, 5KB)
>When there were many PDF
>file links on a page, I would instead notify users at the
beginning of the
>page that most of the links that followed were for PDF
files, so then I
>wouldn't bother adding "(PDF file)" after those links.
I would only do this if _all_ links on that page lead to
PDFs, for
example a list of documents.
>My boss had wanted the icon method a while back, but when
I mentioned to him
>the possible clutter factor it would create on the page,
he decided we
>should instead use the "title" parameter for links. So
that when you mouse
>over a link to a PDF file it says " PDF File ". The
spaces were
>added to create margins in the mouseover. I wasn't
comfortable with that
>method for two reasons: possible misuse/abuse of an
accessiblity feature,
It's rather a usability problem. Users should be able to see
immediately
if a link points to an PDF without having to "touch" each
link.
>There are currently about 250 PDF links for 1403
documents in our site, and
>while I could use find and replace, then I will still
have to sync the
>entire site and then tell DW to ignore all the dupe files
that have been
>gathering all these years. Not to mention I still haven't
determined the
>method I will use to include a space between the end of
the link and the PDF
>icon, but still prevent the icon from being "orphaned" to
it's own line,
>which my boss doesn't want.
I apply my icons with CSS:
.icon {padding-left: 21px; background: left no-repeat}
.pdf {background-image: url(/images/icons/pdf.png)}
And in the source code:
<a class="icon pdf" href="document.pdf">title</a>
(PDF, 5KB)
Micha

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I want to make a PDF document which links to several Video clips (or different chapters in one video clip). I can make the links in Acrobat no problem, but I can't make them open a .vob in a VideoTS folder (it opens Toast for some reason). So I figure I need to make individual clips compressed in some other way?
Because my projects usually go straight to DVD after creating menus of varying complexity in DVDSP, my work flow through Compressor has become reliable and un-varied. I have tweaked my favourite settings which work well for me.
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I understand the idea to use a PDF linking to video playback, I have done this countless times for clients who want annual reports turned into interactive documents with video, graphics and photography added
As to the type of file format to use to link from the PDF's, this will depent on a number of factors, end user compatability, the overall efficiency of the users computer and your own working practices.
my comments are based with my authoring set up and the clients I supply:
Quicktime - few windows computers have QT installed, if you use this you would need to provide QT player on the disk, the user would need to install manually. H264 looks great but users machine spec has to be good
WMV - I use this when I am asked for video linked to a Powerpoint file or from PDF.s, works well reasonable image quality, I can usually run WMF files up to full screen on my clients machines.
flash - again few computers have this installed, picture quality is not as good as WMV and the image size must be kept small, the user would need to install Flash Player if not already installed
MPEG 1 - the worst image quality but the most compatable of the video formats, any PC using windows 95 and newer will play this file, I never use this as it is so poor, even though I have an expensive real time hardware encoder.
VOB - I use this when there is more video that text for the viewer to watch. VOBs are generated from an individually created DVD using DVDSP, for our users is the best image quality.
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Toast is launching because there is an association to Toast from the VOB's just like mov files are associated to QT player, just ignore this it wont cgange the outcome in Acrobat. My VOB's are also 'blank' and are linked to DVD Afteredit
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Dump the web page.
For deployment of PDF collections on optical storage media (OSM) avoid "entry" to the collection(s) from an HTML file on the OSM.
Rather, always provide a "start" PDF that is on the root of the OSM.
This avoids having to rely on the end-user's browser or browser version or one software house's updates gobbering another house's application.
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Identified the common "parent" directory/folder that exists on the web deployment.
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--| feir
.... file: exec_summ.pdf
.... --| figs
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~
~
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True for a transfer of files to other web space, network space, other local machines, USB device, or OSM (any format - PDF, HTML, whatever).
~
~
So, with the parent "feir" and its child content present in the 'burn zone' what goes to OSM will contain functional links.
A Windows autorun file on the OSM root affords the possibility of calling Adobe Reader from the local machine to render the "start" PDF.
If, for the PDFs in the 'burn zone, a Catalog Index has been created then associate the PDX file to the 'start' PDF.
With it all on an OSM, the user has a mounted PDX as soon as the 'start' PDF is opened. This supports "anytime" use of Advanced Search.
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Be well...

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I have created a pdf document in Acrobat 9 Pro that is password protected. You must enter the password to open it. In this document there are perhaps 15 links to other pdf documents. I set up each of the links to open in a new window. The links work as expected in Acrobat, each opening in a new window, however, when I posted the documents to the web, the links open in the same window as the original document. This would not be a big issue if the original document were not password protected, but each time the user clicks on a link, it takes him out of the original document. To get back to the original document requires re-entering the password. This is a major irritation with so many links.
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