Self-Contained PDF ?

Question

I do not know the jargon and never used Acrobat before three days ago. Forgive my naivete.

I have made a pdf with mutiple/clickable links. Most of these are web links. I have no worries about these.

Some of these "links" , however, are to external graphic files on my PC...which have to be opened in an image viewer app/software/program.

I don't want to incorporate these "linked" visual graphic files into the body of the pdf...so I need a way to embed/include/attach them that makes them available/clickable/viewable without being linked to my PC. I want to be able to copy this pdf to a thumbdrive and hand it to someone with this SELF-CONTAINED pdf.

Creating a separate images folder is not an option.

Make sense?

Possible?

Kevin

try67 · Answer

Yes, and yes.You can attach files to a PDF file via the Attachments panel in Acrobat (it has an icon of a paper-clip, and used to be on the left-hand side, before Adobe "renovated" the UI and moved everything around). Basically, just open this panel and drag & drop the files into it, and they will become a part of the PDF, while still existing as stand-alone files. Creating a link to those files is trickier, though. It requires using a script.The basic code is this: this.exportDataObject({cName: "TargetFile.jpg", nLaunch: 2}); Replace "TargetFile.jpg" with the actual name of the file you attached and want to link to.The user will also get a warning message confirming they wish to open this file, but they won't need to save it. It will be saved as a temporary file, and then opened directly.

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