Add Paperclip style icon attached file link to PDF

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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

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A picture is worth a thousand words:

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

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Hi, thanks for the reply. But your method just add an attachment, it doesn't add the icon the asker (me too) wanted on that specific page.

I've used Acrobat with Windows for years. There if I want attach a photo or image on one page (not covering that page), I can add a 'Graph', 'Paperclip', 'Attachment' or 'Tag' icon anywhere on that page. This is very handy, for example, if on one page there is a word 'Mitochondrion' that I don't understand, I can put a 'paperclip' icon near that word, when I click the 'paperclip' icon, it will open a picture or file that I attached to the current file. But in Mac's version Acrobat I have to navigate to the attachment panel and then search the attachment for 'Mitochondrion', that would be a tedious job if I have hundreds of attachments for a book in PDF format.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

Thanks for the quick reply. After your confirmation I tried several times, I can see the four icons. Before there is 'Paper Clip' in the tool bar. I have used that to attach a picture. But that 'Paper Clip (with a plus sign)' is not the right tool, the right tool is a 'Paper Clip (with a note call-out sign)' from comment. Now I can attach a picture like what I did in Windows Acrobat. Many thanks again!

You will see the 'Paper Clip (with a plus sign)' when you use Edit PDF.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

At Tools > Comments use the file attachment.

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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