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- Buttons cover content, reveal it upon entry: Glossary (PDF: 63K); Multiplication
table (PDF: 324K, text-to-speech activated
when clicking)
- Add
page notes, navigate to pages with notes through menu or buttons
(PDF: 332K; distilled with TimeSavers+Form Assistant).
Page notes can also be sent as an e-mail message or printed to
console; you may also use Acrobat's Find function to search text
in notes. Page notes can be saved in Reader if the PDF is Save-enabled
- Mark
pages, navigate to marked pages (PDF: 414K;
distilled with TimeSavers+Form Assistant); page marks can be
saved in Reader if the PDF is Save-enabled (Acrobat/Reader 8)
- Random FrameMaker
Tips (PDF: 287K) displayed upon clicking
a bookmark or a link (can also be assigned to events, such as
"document will close"). Also demonstrated: links to
specific locations in an embedded PDF.
- Web-based
WMV movie (PDF: 201K; distilled with TimeSavers+Multimedia
Assistant)
- Table/list
sorting in PDF (PDF: 98K; distilled with
TimeSavers+Form Assistant)
- Embedded
movie, displayed in document, in a floating window or full
screen (PDF: 2.1M; distilled with TimeSavers+Multimedia
Assistant). Links display movie segments with custom titles,
slow motion, magnified view.
- Image
pop-ups (PDF: 366K; distilled with Multimedia
+ Form Assistants)
- Embedded
JPEG images displayed in a floating window (PDF:
252K; distilled with TimeSavers+Multimedia + Form Assistants)
- Audio
& text popups, audio bookmarks, text highlights (PDF: 598K; distilled with TimeSavers+Multimedia +
Form Assistants, custom Highlight shortcut)
- Embedded
audio files, custom controller, bookmarks & text popus
(PDF: 918K; distilled with TimeSavers + Multimedia/Form
Assistants)
- Dual-function
true/false test (uses non-printing fields for on-screen interaction;
the file prints as print-oriented document, adding lines for
answers) (PDF: 164K; distilled with
TimeSavers + Form Assistant)
- Sample
interactive checklist (with Acrobat 8, forms can be enabled
for Save in Reader) (PDF: 66K; distilled with
TimeSavers + Form Assistant)
- Search
for a part name in a 3D model; display name of selected part
(PDF: 123K; distilled with TimeSavers + 3D +
Form Assistants)
- Multiple
animation sequences (PDF: 92K; distilled
with TimeSavers+3D Assistant)
- Links/bookmarks
to specific locations in embedded PDF (PDF:
225K; distilled with TimeSavers+custom Embed shortcuts)
- Improving figure links with ~View shortcuts -- links point to the figure
itself, and not to the title. Also demonstrated (PDF:
170K): Form Assistant (non-printing Back button),
ExtractFigureBookmarks (PDF: 115K; distilled
with TimeSavers+Form Assistant)
PDF
(550K) using these techniques (applying
to figure and tables), produced by Bergan et al. Inc.
distilled with TimeSavers+custom View shortcuts
- Toggle
cross-section link in an interactive 3D model; gradient background
(PDF: 571K; distilled with TimeSavers+3D Assistant)
- Web-based
Flash movies used to demonstrate features (links/bookmarks)
(PDF: 147K; distilled with TimeSavers+Multimedia
Assistant)
- Pre-defined
search phrases + Search button (visible on-screen, not printed) (PDF: 107K; distilled with TimeSavers+Form Assistant)
- Active field highlighting,
validation of e-mail address & credit card number (PDF:
242K; distilled with TimeSavers+Form Assistant)
- PDF Document
Title set automatically from top bookmark;
Author, Copyright Status, Notice text & Info URL set from
the Defaults tab (TimeSavers 5.0; PDF: 90K; source
FM file)
- Web links in PDFs opening a new browser window (TimeSavers
5.0): all
web links (PDF: 82K, native FM hypertext
markers) or individual
web links (PDF: 75K, custom hypertext
markers)
- Answers
and instructor notes in layers (PDF: 48K;
distilled with TimeSavers+Layer Assistant)
- Setting Page Labels
using the ~PageLabelRomanFM shortcut (PDF: 185K;
distilled with TimeSavers)
- FrameMaker cross-references converted automatically to underlined links
(underlines are visible on-screen but not printed, requires Acrobat/Reader
6 or higher) (PDF: 60K; distilled with TimeSavers)
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