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October 21, 2021
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Add Paperclip style icon attached file link to PDF

  • October 21, 2021
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I am strugglin to add an Icon that i can click on with a link that opens up an attached file on my PDF - it seems like it should be simple! I recently had this working so i could double click the coloured icon on the PDF and it opened up the attached pdf i had designated - now i can't find a way to do this. I dont want a hyperlink btw, just the displayed customisable coloured icon (you can select it to be a paperclip, tab or a couple other icons in the properties when you set ip up) - it was such a nice feature for my work and now i literally cant find a way to add to the PDF - please help thanks

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JR Boulay
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 21, 2021

A picture is worth a thousand words:

 

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
Participant
October 21, 2021

Thanks so much guys - illogical for me as a noob but will do some learning on the interface workflow - cheers again legends 

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 21, 2021

At Tools > Comments use the file attachment.

Participant
October 21, 2021

Sry to be so noob but i don't see a usual "tools" menu in my acrobat pro... when i click on tools tab it takes me too a page full of icons, comments is down the bottom but it hasnt got any option to use file attachment 

Legend
October 21, 2021

Open the comment tool.


Tools no longer appear on menus, you need to learn how to work with Acrobat's "super easy to use" interface. In particular you are looking at a list of tools. So you click to choose the tool to work with. There are many tools and the arrangement is far from logical, so I suggest getting seriously into the habit of using tool search. If you fill in Attach in the tools search box, you get a link taking you right to the Attachment tool.

Participant
October 21, 2021

 

This is the type of attachment i am trying to apply