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Can PDF's sort of act like a slideshow on some pages and set the time?? Thanks

niic (15 pencils) | Tue, 2005-11-29 21:38
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Hi all,

I’m wondering if it is possible to have a time counter in my PDF (for the navigation)!?

I have a two page PDF in which when opened it loads into a splash page and will wait there for user interaction. I’m wondering if after a certain amount of time, is it possible for the next page to be displayed? I have the usual button links to the next page but my client is specific and would like it to automatically move to the next page (like a slide show) if no action has been made by the user. However, there is a constraint to the automatic navigation. It will need to after a certain time has lapsed automatically navigate to the next page and not return (I only want it to move forward) and the time it lapses for without user action needs to be set by mean. I’m hoping PDF is this dynamic; I can’t find anything in the help files!

(I’m running Acrobat 7 Pro and developed the documents in PDF v1.5)

Thank you for any help or suggestions.

Best regards,
Nick.

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Martin Koch | Wed, 2005-11-30 07:42

You can enter javascript code under tools>javascript>document actions / document open i.e. a timer loop followed by app.goForward; to automatically advance to the next page after a specific amount of time.

I'm sorry that I can't be more specific it's a while now that I used Javascript in PDF-Documents.

A PDF Javascript guide should be available under help.

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