How To Trigger Events In Pdfs?

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Acrobat PDF documents are really wondrous that make sharing of information in a presentable manner. There are various properties and features of a PDF file. One of the main functionality of a PDF document is use of page actions to trigger events in PDFs. When you open or close a page in a PDF document Acrobat raises a little ‘event' that you can hook into to activate a movie, play a sound or even run a JavaScript code.

To get familiar with Page Actions, first of all let's make a movie start playing when the page is opened. Follow the given below steps to trigger events in a PDF document using Page Actions.

Open your PDF document and insert a Movie using the Movie tool from the Advanced Editing toolbar.

Once you have a movie inserted (Windows users can also insert the test movie in the Windows directory: clock.avi), open the ‘Pages' pane by going through View  Navigation Tabs  Pages).

Right Mouse Click (Mac: Control + Click) on the thumbnail for the page that you have inserted the movie into and choose ‘Page Properties'.

There are two trigger types for hooking ...
... into Page Actions, the first is to hook into the Page Open action and the other option is the Page Closed Action. Choose the Page Open trigger type.

From the ‘Select Action' drop down box choose ‘Play Acrobat 6 Compatible Media' (or version 5 Compatible Media is applicable).

Now click 'Add' and select the 'Annotation from Movie' that you inserted earlier (also note that you could have also inserted your movie by choosing the 'Browse' button).

The next dialog box allows you to select what will happen to the Movie when the Page is opened, choose ‘Play' from the drop down.

Once you clicked OK you will find your inserted Media will be listed as Media that will play when the Page is opened.

Now the last step left is to save your PDF document. So just simply save it after performing the above mentioned steps in sequence. The next time this page (or document if it's the first page) is opened the movie will automatically start playing. Till now you must have understood the process of triggering events in PDFs. So start using this feature to make your PDF more interactive.

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