Interactive curved boxes on PDF?

[Giorgio-IT]

Hi everyone, I made a pie chart and I would like each slice of the pie to be able to contain a link to different pages of a PDF file. Can you tell me if it is possible to create something like this and with which tool?

Thanks a lot in advance for your suggestions.

Giorgio

[jane-e]

@Giorgio-IT 

The Link tool built into Acrobat only creates links that are rectangles, not triangles or other odd shapes.

If it can be done by scripting or writing code, the scripters will speak up.

Jane

[Thom Parker]

Yes it can be done. If the pie chart is static, the pie chart image can be placed on a button, then with the help of some geometry, the mouse postion on a MouseUp event can be used to determine the pie slice and then navigate to the correct URL.

However, since this is a scripted solution it probably won't work when the PDF is viewed on a browser or mobile device. 

[try67 · Accepted solution]

I think the easiest solution is to create 3 or 4 identical buttons for each slice. That will probably cover more than 80% of the area and should be sufficient.

[Giorgio-IT]

@try67 Thank you for your proposed resolution, from my point of view and skills, it think it is the most congenial. I hope in the future the selections can be modified under Adobe Pdf as they are in Photoshop or Illustrator thanks to Bézier curves.

[jane-e]

I hope in the future the selections can be modified under Adobe Pdf as they are in Photoshop or Illustrator thanks to Bézier curves.

By @Giorgio-IT

To clarify:

Photoshop and Illustrator cannot create hyperlinks or buttons that are active from within an image.

(It is possible to create a hyperlink from a rectangular Slice in Photoshop, but that only writes html code that can be used elsewhere. The Slice, aka smaller image, itself cannot contain a hyperlink.)

You can make a feature request for this idea to the product developers. The Acrobat team does not have Bugs and Ideas in the Adobe forums as many other boards do. Instead they continue to use a separate website called UserVoice: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/

Jane

[JR Boulay]

Until PDF 2.0 is fully supported, form fields and link objects must be rectangular.