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Chapter 2 for more specific information on all the ways to navigate a PDF
document.)
Following Web links in Acrobat 6
In addition to using the normal navigation controls found in Acrobat 6 and
Adobe Reader 6, because you’re dealing with Web pages, you can use their
own navigation controls, usually in the form of various navigation buttons
and hyperlinks, to move from page to page. Be aware, however, that unless
you’ve captured the entire Web site, you will often come upon buttons and
links to pages that haven’t yet been downloaded and aren’t currently part of
the PDF file. If your computer has access to the Internet at the time you’re
viewing the file, you can still follow its Web links and even download its Web
pages and add them to the PDF document.
When browsing the file in Acrobat 6, you can tell when you’re on a link to a
page that you haven’t downloaded as part of the PDF file because the program
adds a plus sign (+) to the Hand-with-pointing-index-finger mouse pointer, and
a ScreenTip showing the page’s URL address appears. In Adobe Reader 6, the
program adds a W (for Web) to the mouse pointer, along with the ScreenTip
showing the page’s URL.
The first time you click a link to a Web page that hasn’t been captured in
Acrobat 6, the program displays the Specify Weblink Behavior dialog box, as
shown in Figure 7-3. To have Acrobat 6 download the Web page in Acrobat
and add it to the current PDF file, leave the In Acrobat radio button selected
and then click OK. To have Acrobat launch your Web browser to display the
page there and, therefore, not add the Web page to your PDF document,
select the In Web Browser radio button instead before clicking OK.
Note in Figure 7-3 that the Do Not Ask Again check box is automatically
selected in the Specify Weblink Behavior dialog box. This means that the next
time you click a link in the PDF file, Acrobat will either automatically download
and display the page in Acrobat (if the In Acrobat option is selected) or in your
Web browser (if the In Web Browser option is selected) without prompting you
to decide between using the In Acrobat and In Web Browser option in the
Specify Weblink Behavior dialog box.
If you want to be prompted each time you click a link to a page that hasn’t yet
been downloaded, deselect the Do Not Ask Again check box. Even if you
don’t deselect this check box, you can still switch between the In Acrobat
and In Web Browser options by pressing the Shift key when you click a link
(that’s what the When weblinks are clicked on in the future, the
shift key will toggle the above selected behaviormessage in the
Specify Weblink Behavior dialog box is trying to tell you). So, for example, if
you leave the In Acrobat radio button selected the first time you follow a
hyperlink to have the page added to the PDF file in Acrobat, but decide at the
next link that you only want to browse the page with your Web browser, you
accomplish this by holding down the Shift key as you click that hyperlink.
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