How can i duplicate links, not buttons across all pages?

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Hi, I am making a planner and need to duplicate links in the exact same place across 365 pages. I tried making the buttons and duplicating them across pages, the interactive buttons worked in the Adobe Acrobat program but once i downloaded them they did not work. I see you have to download it as Adobe (Interactive) but this is not showing as an option for me.

Links seem to work fine once I download the file. The links are linked to different page views in the file. The only problem is that I cannot find how to duplicate links, not buttons across multiple pages. Doing this manually would take forever.

Much appreciated if anyone could help with some tips.

Thom Parker · Answer

When you say the buttons didn't work when downloaded, do you mean they didn't work in the browser PDF viewer? The vast majority of browsers, mobile PDF viewers, and 3rd party PDF viewers are non-compliant, and so don't support many of the interactive PDF features, especially JavaScript.

You are correct in thinking that a link annotation has the greatest compatibiltiy accross the different viewers. Except, as try67 points out, that link executes JavaScript. And unfortunately, an Acrobat automation script can only add links with JavaScript actions. What you need is for the link to execute a built-in Action, as specified in the PDF specification. The only way to automate adding/copying this kind of link is with a plug-in.

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