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Embedding PDF Files (Documents) inside a Adobe Acrobat PDF
I am trying to find a way to embed a PDF document into an existing Adobe Acrobat X PDF. I know how to create links to different pages. However, I need to embed an actual file inside the PDF in certain arias, after clicking on an image or link… Any ideas?
Have you tried using attachments?
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Have you tried using attachments?
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AR_1 you are AMZING! Thank you. My links finally work. Thank you so much.
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I could able to do this, but i want reader not to know the pages, reader opens the PDF file and see only one main page and clicks the image to open the file, he should not know other files in the same PDF document
How i can hide all other pages in the PDF file?
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How would you be able to do this, but open the link in a new window? Currently mine is opening the link in the same window and closing out my original pdf. Thanks
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Open up the properties of the link, choose to edit the action and select that the link opens in a "new window". I hope this helps.
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I'm trying to follow these directions but Acrobat's layout is different now.
I'm able to replace the existing file but once the main pdf is separated from my network/server, the link is broken. I'm not finding a way to tell it to look for the attachment.
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I have the same problem. I have attached the file to the PDF, but I can't get the hyperlink within the document to point to it. I can only get it to point at the document locate on my local machine.
The steps provided above don't follow the most current Acrobat Pro interface....
Any updates on how to solve this?
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Use the Link tool of Acrobat Pro DC.
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Hi Bernd,
I tried the link button. I am prompted with this:
After I choose the option "open a file", it allows me to select from my CPU. However, every time a user clicks the link within the PDF to download the linked document, it displays this message showing that it resides on my CPU:
I think this will cause issues for other users accessing the PDF on the internet. That is why I have 'attached' the correct file to the PDF, but I am unable to set the 'link' to point to it.
I want to make sure that other users can access the file, independent of it residing on my machine.
Any other advice?
Thanks,
Brett
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Use the Link Action "Go to a page view". Read the first reply.
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I'm having the same problem as brettc... I have no problem linking the file through the above instructions, it's just that after I send the file elsewhere, the link is not accessible. What I need is to be able to embed the attached file into the document somehow so that when I send the parent file, the child file is still viewable through the link when the user clicks it.
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The answer marked as correct for this thread solves that problem... Have you tried it?
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I have. But I still am unable to access the child file from the emailed parent file. It seems that either the child file isn't truly attached, only linked via a file path (which ceases to work post email), or the link to the child file from the parent file isn't a link to the attachment, but rather to it's file path. I know that the correct answer does and should work in a general sense, but I just can't find the workaround. Also, I noticed that there are quite a few layout changes between the previous and current versions of Acrobat. I'm working on Acrobat DC.
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Please describe the exact steps you took to attach the file and then link
to it.
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 7:29 PM, NathanSAllred <forums_noreply@adobe.com>
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Alright,
I opened the file in Adobe Acrobat DC.
I clicked Edit PDF.
View - Show/Hide - Navigation Panes - Attachments.
Add a new attachment.
I selected the child file.
I clicked the Link dropdown menu - Add/Edit Web or Document Link.
I double clicked the text/image I wanted linked.
I selected the Actions tab.
From the Select Action: dropdown menu, I selected Go to a page view.
I clicked Add.
I double clicked the attachment in the attachment pane.
I clicked Set Link.
I clicked Ok.
I saved the file, sent it to myself to test on this and other computers in the email application, in Acrobat DC, and in other apps. The link only worked if I opened it again in Acrobat DC.
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Not all PDF viewers can handle this.
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I have a similar issue but not quite the same however it may well be that the people experiencing the issues are actually using a different version of Adobe or maybe a different PDF viewer altogether - can you advise, if you know, what versions of adobe (or up to what versions) will work with this feature?
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You answered your own question. It's a bug in the other applications you're using.
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I am having trouble with step 6:
When I double click the attached file in the attachments file, all it does it open the actual file. Then when I click 'set link', the link sets to the page view that I am currently on (i.e. it sets the link to open the current page, rather than the file). What am I doing wrong?
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How did you test the link?
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I test the link by saving and closing the PDF and then reopening it in Adobe Reader.
In the properties for the link it looks like this:
I guess my problem that in step 6 "In the Attachments pane, double-click the attached file and click on Set Link." - double clicking on the link just opens the attachment and doesn't seem to connect to the link I am trying to set. I don't understand how double-clicking on the attachment in the attachment pane can do anything other than just open the link.
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What's the problem, then?
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melaniep44834403 wrote
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When I double click the attached file in the attachments file, all it does it open the actual file.
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Looks like that you can't open the attached file.
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Ahh! these instructions are wrong!
I tried and it failed to link, what did work if you go to:
Tools-> COMMENT-> attach file ( you can choose from 4 icons only) but it does embed the file in you pdf
Click anywhere on the page where you want the file and the icon you selected will be the thing you will be double clicking to open the embedded document.
Hope that helps!
fyi: I am using Adobe Acrobat DC