Set links for a PDF in Illustrator

I am setting up a multipage newsletter in Illustrator CS5 on a Mac. After saving as a PDF I have been using Acrobat Pro to go in and set links to go to the next page, home, websites, etc. It is getting cumbersome to have to redo all the links every time I have to make changes and generate a new PDF. It seems like I should be able to set these in Illustrator, but I can't seem to find anything that works. Has anyone tried anything like this? Thanks.

You are simply using the wrong tool. You really should consider InDesign, if PDF interactivity is required. You are not considering that artboards are just arbitrary tiles of a larger work canvas, not pages, so there is nothing persistent to establish a page logic on. The conversion to pages for PDF is jsut as arbitrary and only happens thne and there...
Mylenium

Similar Messages

Styling links for a PDF document

Hello!
I am trying to style my links for this PDF document. They should signal "go forward" or "more information here" in the simplest, most minimalistic manner. Now, I know I've seen symbols like these before, I just can't for the life of me remember where. Anyhow here's my attempt at recreating them:
The blue text gets underlined when the mouse hovers it. The symbol stays the same though.
So what do you guys think? How'd you wanna improve them?
Many thanks!

Also, yesterday the lines around my text field and text boxes....mysteriously disappeared.
Can someone pls tell me how to get them back as I use them to line up my objects.
Thanks~
Tammie

Set Password for a PDF created from SAP

Hi,
Somebody knows if it is possible to set a password for a pdf file created from a function module.
We are using different functions to generate the pdf (i.e. CONVERT_OTF, CONVERT_OTF_AND_ARCHIVE).
Are there some parameters to set this password, or also after archived it (with Archive Link)u2026
Thanks a lot.
KR
Giuseppe.

I use Report Builder 6.0.5.35.0

How can I set DPI for a document in illustrator?

I'm designing a user interface for iPad (Resolution: 1024x768, DPI:132). Setting the resolution is a piece of cake but when I change the ruler unit to Centimeters, it shows the screen about 36x27cm which is not right (iPad screen is 24.3x19cm).
Illustrator calculates these lengths based on the DPI. But when creating a new document the only available DPI's are: 72, 150, 300 (File > New > Raster Effect). I searched for the answer on this forum and googled it and looked into the help but couldn't find a satisfying answer. I know that Illustrator is a vector design program but there must be a way to set the DPI to an arbitrary value.
How can I have a 1024x768px artboard in Illustrator that is 24.3x19cm? (DPI=132)

Alex,
only when I'm printing or saving the image for the web, Illustrator will ask me the actual width.
Almost. Illustrator won't "ask you for the width." As with any program, when you export a vector graphic to a raster image, you have the opportunity to specify its resolution, in number of pixels. Illustrator tries to "simplify" (and thereby often confuses) this process by providing different interfaces for the same thing. The so-called "Save For Web" interface is just another way to export a raster image (and other web-centric things, like slicing). The settings available (or at least the ones most prominate) differ between the straightforward Export dialog and the Save For Web dialog.
My question is: how illustrator calculates these measures?
Again: When Illustrator's rulers are set to "Pixels," they are really set to points. A point measures 1/72 inch. So Illustrator assumes a "pixel" is scaled to measure 1/72 inch, even though it may not be in a particular raster image object you have on the page.
But when you export as a raster image (in other words, rasterize the artwork), you don't care what those pixels are scaled to due to the actual, physical, hardware dimensions of the device's monitor pixels (so-many centimeters by so-many centimeters). Regardless of whether the device's hardware pixels are gigantic or microscopic, you just care how many of them there are. So long as you export your finished artwork rasterized to that number of pixels, it will effectively be scaled (in terms of actual measure) by whatever device it is displayed on, becasue the device is going to "turn on" a monitor pixel for each pixel in your image.
In other words, when designing purely for electronic displays (as opposed to printing), forget all about PPI, or DPI, which are nothing but scale factors, and forget about the actual measure (centimeters x centimeters, inches by inches) of the monitor.
If I display your 1024 x 768 image in a web browser on my 15-inch-diagonal Toshiba laptop, your image is going to occupy 1024 x 768 of my monitor's pixels.
If I display your 1024 x 768 image in a web browser on my 10-inch-diagonal Acer netbook, your image is going to occupy 1024 x 768 of my monitor's pixels, and it will display at a smaller actual size than it does on my Toshiba, because the Acer's monitor pixels are smaller than the Toshiba's monitor pixels.
But even though the image's actual measure is smaller on the Acer, and even though your image occupies the exact same number of monitor pixels on both the Acer and the Toshiba, I will have to do some scrolling on the Acer because its monitor has fewer hardware pixels.
So if I'm designing images to fit neatly on my Acer without the need for scrolling, I care about its screen size in terms of number of hardware pixels, not in terms of actual measure (centimeters or inches).
I want to be able to set the lines and curves in terms of pixels.
Because Illustrator considers a pixel to be a particular measure (1/72 inch), work with your rulers set to either the bogus PIxels or to Points (which, in Illustrator, is the same thing). Forget about the dimensions of a device screen. It doesn't matter.
If you want to also spec type in terms of "pixels" you can also (pointlessly) set your General Prefs to use the bogus Pixles as the "Unit Of Measure". But this is pointless because in Illustrator, a so-called "Pixel" is, in fact a point already, and Points is the default UOM for type. Either way, you have to realize that any measure for type (using "Pixels" or Points) is a measure of the font's em-square, not the measure of the actual glyphs. So setting your type to "9 Pixels" doesn't mean the type characters are going to occupy 9 pixels in height.
But you can proceed to specify line weights, box sizes, etc., etc, in terms of ruler units (bogus pixels or legitimate points).
Alternatively, if you want, you can set your rulers to Centimeters. And then as you draw your boxes and set your stroke weights, you can specify them in terms of Points or "Pixels" by just typing "pts" or "px" after the measures you key into the various dimension fields.
But after all this is said and done, the point you're missing is still this: All that means nothing if you don't export the resulting images to the number of pixels that you want them to occupy on the device you are designing for. In other words, you can work with your Illustrator rulers set to "Pixels" all day long; but if you then export the artwork to a raster format using a Pixels-Per-Inch setting other than 72, It won't be the right size, because Illustrator still thinks a Pixel measures one point.
So regardless of how you have your rulers set while working, it is just simpler (and more legitimately meaningful) to export your raster images in terms of number of pixels (N pixels x n pixels), not by PPI. That brings us full-circle right back to where your question started: There is no document-wide PPI for an Illustrator file.
But what you have to understand is this: If your design includes already-rasterized objects, the number of actual pixels included in each of those raster objects is entirely independent of whatever Illustrator's rulers say they "measure" in "Pixels". That is very important. Because if you use as part of your design a raster image that is scaled to anything other than 72 ppi, and/or that image does not align to a point-size increment of Illustrator's grid, then when you export your final product, that image is going to be re-rasterized to whatever PPI you export, based on its on-page position and the quality of that image is going to be compromized. That's why it's important to understand that "Pixels" is bogus as a unit of measure in a program like Illustrator.
In pursuit of web- and device-centric creative markets, Adobe continues to add confusion-generating "conveniences" to Illustrator. For example, to workaround Illustrator's problematic antialiasing, version CS5 added a feature called Align To Pixel Grd which causes vertical and horizontal strokes to align to whole-"pixel" increments, to avoid antialiasing of those edges.
There are also probably templates in your AI installation (depending on version) already set up for mobile devices, and there's the whole "Device Central" online thing, if you're inclined to use that kind of thing. So look up and read about those features.
JET

Set link for main image in gallery

Hi, how do you set link to the main image in the photo
gallery? I was able to add photo caption using the
spry:detailregion but cannot do use the same method for the main
image because Spry won't allow nested div.
I saw a thread that talked about changing the SetMainImage
function but I've tried that it doens't seem to work. Can you show
me how to edit the code to do this? Thank you.

ok, after a day of trial and errors, I found a little fix for
this. It is not pretty but it does the job. First, change the
mainImageOutline div to a link. Second, add in two lines of codes
into the function ShowCurrentImage()
html file
<a href="#" id="mainImageOutline" style="width: 0px;
height: 0px;" ><img border="0" id="mainImage" height="250"
width="250" src="images/spacer.gif" /></a>
gallery.js
function ShowCurrentImage()
var curRow = dsPhotos.getCurrentRow();
// added by Tri
var tri_imgHolder =
document.getElementById("mainImageOutline");
tri_imgHolder.href = curRow["@newsLink"]; // this pull the
link from the XML file
// added by Tri
SetMainImage("2006_home_news/" +
dsGalleries.getCurrentRow()["@base"] + "images/" + curRow["@path"],
curRow["@width"], curRow["@height"], "tn" + curRow["ds_RowID"]);
link in the xml file
<photo
path = "Domlg.jpg"
width = "440"
height = "250"
thumbpath = "domthumb.jpg"
thumbwidth = "90"
thumbheight = "70"
newsLink="
http://www.tringuyen.net">

Setting margins for "Create PDF from Clipboard"

I'm posting this because I could not find another question that dealt with my problem directly, but after A LOT of searching, and a few failed attempts, I did find the solution.
Problem: When creating a PDF from content copied to the clipboard from a webpage, everything on the page was way off-center, with almost no left margin.
Once the PDF was created, since there is no easy way to adjust page margins, the only way to center everything would have been one page at a time (for 24 pages), by dragging the page contents manually to the center of the page. I tried using the "Set Page Boxes" function, but I ended up with 24 blank pages. Yes, I could export the PDF as a Word document, and then reprint that Word document as a PDF, but I knew there had to be a simpler way.
Solution: When you create a PDF from a clipboard containing text (or in the case of the above document, text and images), Acrobat uses the settings for "Create PDF from Web Page."
Unfortunately, if you look up Convert clipboard content to PDF in Acrobat Help, it doesn't tell you that. AND the settings for "Create PDF from Web Page" are NOT included in the list of settings under Preferences > Convert to PDF. There is an HTML option in that list, but there are no editable settings for that file type (There are actually quite a few such file types listed there, and my question is, if there are no editable settings, why are they even listed under Preferences?). Batch Conversion of Text Files also uses the same settings.
So, here's how to do it:
Select File > Create > PDF from Web Page
Click on Settings
To adjust the default margins for new PDF files created from a clipboard containing text, select the Page Layout tab, and adjust the margins to your liking. Notice how small the Default right and left margins are... hence my problem.
Click on OK to save your new settings, and the simply Cancel out of the "Create PDF from Web Page" dialog box. If you read this page, it says you have to actually create at least one PDF file using the "Create PDF from Web Page" dialog in order for your settings to stick, but I never did, and my settings were saved just fine.
If you're copying basic text (or converting text files), that's all there is to it.
With web page content, there could still be a problem (as there was with this web page), if the content you've selected is not the full width of the web page. I think this has to do with the fact that web pages often use Content Style Sheets to format their page elements, and those styles are transferred when you copy that content to the clipboard. The PDF page margins are technically correct now, as you can see by the position of the image at the top of the page, but the text portion (at the bottom of the page) of the PDF only fills the same percentage of the text area (between the margins) as it did on the web page.
The only solution I have found if this happens, is to export the PDF as a Word document, and adjust the margins there. In the document I was working with in these examples, there were boatloads of different invisible subsections to the document, and each subsection had different settings for right and left indent, fonts, font sizes, etc., so there was a lot more to it than a simple 'copy & paste' type of procedure. Once I corrected all the different elements (and this one had a whole lot of weirdness going on), and then printed it as a new PDF, everything looked much better.
Hopefully this helps someone else find their answer much easier than I found mine
And of course, comments and suggestions are welcome.

Thanks for asking. Yes, with either the Crop tool or the Set Page Boxes tool, I could trim the page just fine, removing the excess from the right side, but as soon as I tried to add space to the left side, it just blanked out the whole page. It seemed like it should have worked, and maybe on a simple text file it would have. But that particular array of content proved to be most troublesome.
I also could have just cropped the page down to 6.5 x 11, and then centered it when I printed it.
My primary goal in searching for the answer, and my main reason for posting this, was for setting the margins for future documents (and to help others find those settings,too). Since I still had the web address, I could easily recreate the PDF once I figured out how to set the margins. Of course I didn't realize that there would still be problems once I got the settings right. Like I said, that particular web page seemed to have several unique difficulties.

Can I make a web link for Imported PDF forms?

I imported a PDF form onto formscentral. When I click the distribute tab I do not get the same options as if I created the form on formscentral. Can I create a web link for my imported PDF form?

Hi;
No, the Import PDF feature allows you to save a new version of your PDF form that has a "Submit" button that submits the data back to FormsCentral which is available for you to view, analyze and manage on the View Responses tab. It does not provide a "web" version of the form.
In order to make the PDF form available online you will want to create a link to download the PDF and instruct users to fill it out using the free Adobe Reader (or Acrobat), you do not want to allow the PDF to be opened inside of a web browser as that will not work for most users. The FormsCentral PDFs must be filled out using Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Here is an FAQ on PDF in a web browser: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-4142
Tutorial on Import PDF: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2654
Troubleshooting issues with Imported PDF: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2533
Thanks,
Josh

When I try to click on a download link for a .pdf file Firefox does not recognize the MIME type and tries to download the file as "index.php"

When visiting a site I frequent I tried to download a linked .pdf file. Previously I've used Firefox 7.0.1 to download the link with no problem. Using Firefox 8 however I the browser does not recognize the .pdf link's mime type. Instead of recognizing the download link as a .pdf file Firefox 8 tries to download it as "index.php". Firefox 8 does this with .doc files and .txt files as well. When I downgrade to 7.0.1 again the problem disappears.

Hi hakmacpace,
I'd try starting Firefox in [[Safe Mode]]. If you don't have the issue while all of your add-ons, extensions, and themes are disabled, you can try adding them back in one by one until you find the culprit. You should look at the [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting-extensions-themes Extensions and Themes troubleshooting guide ] and the [[Troubleshooting plugins]] article as well.
You could also try [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles?s=create+a+new+profile&r=2&e=es&as=s#w_creating-a-profile Creating a new profile].
Hopefully this helps!

Reg.11.1.1.6.6 patch set links for 11g

Hi Gurus,
Can any one share the patch direct links for 11.1.1.6.6?

OBIEE 11.1.1.6.6 available with installation steps article from Oracle
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1488475.1
Thanks
Kandasamy

Broken link for WebLogicJMSPerformanceGuide.pdf

I am unable to download WebLogicJMSPerformanceGuide.pdf from the following link.
          http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2004/01/WL_JMS_Perform_GD.html
          Does any body have a different URL for this document?

Hi,
          It looks like multiple dev2dev pdf download links aren't working.
          I'm the original main author and can email you a copy. Just send a request to - [email protected] (remove NOSPAM from the address).
          Please keep in mind that this paper is out of date in parts, particularly with respect to persistent store tuning, non-persistent one-ways, and MDB threading. The edoc performance pages supersede it:
          http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs92/messaging.html
          http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs100/messaging.html
          Tom Barnes
          WebLogic JMS Developer Team

Could you provide links for free pdfs&tutorials for Crystal Reports

HI
I am beginner to Crystal reports 2008 . I have installed 30 days version on my pc.
may i have your valuable suggestions and links to free material which will help to my success.
THANKS IN ADVANCE
Jagdish

You are welcome. You may also want to google for online Crystal tutorials although I cannot vouch for them.
Fuskie
Who asks if are satisfied with the response that you mark your question answered so that others may benefit from your solution...

Report with a Download link for a Pdf stored in Blob in database FND tables

We attach a pdf file in the Receivables invoices in Oracle EBS. We use APEX to report from EBS tables. We have a requirement to have a APEX report to display the pdf attached to the invoices with a capability to download the pdf. These pdf are stored in a blob column in fnd_lobs table.
Any pointers on how to approach is highly appreciated.
Thanks
Jo

check this How to Upload and Download Files in an Application
let me know if you have any doubts

How to set bookmarks for interactive Pdf forms?

CAn

I cannot believe the quality of the Acrobat X tutorials. Why can’t they be like the ones for CS. Some balloon text boxes flash by so fast they cannot be read, timing is also an issue for other balloons.
Disappointed, If you like I can make better ones for you

When I click a link for a PDF, a new tab pops up but nothing loads. Why?

I am using Mac OS X 10.5.8 with Firefox 6.0.2.

Are you running Greasemonkey? There's a conflict between Greasemonkey 0.9.10 and Tab Mix Plus on Firefox 6.0.2. Until the add-ons site approves Greasemonkey 0.9.11, you'll have to install it manually.
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/versions/0.9.11 Greasemonkey 0.9.11]
[http://turbulentsky.com/middle-clickcmdclick-on-a-link-doesnt-open-tabs-in-firefox-6-0-2.html Middle-click/Cmd+click on a Link Doesn’t Open Tabs in Firefox 6.0.2]

Does Adobe Send let me set up a link to a PDF?

With adobe SEND will I be albe to set up a link for my pdf so that someone can download it from a thank page? If so will it be httpS or http?
thanks
Sue

Yes, if you create a Public Link, it's an https link that you can insert anywhere.

Set links for a PDF in Illustrator

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for