Adding Hotspots in Adobe Acrobat

This page explains about how to add hotspots in Adobe Acrobat. The Pitcher conversion engine accepts hyperlinks directly from Adobe Acrobat so you can create and copy/paste your hotspots easily within your original PDF.

Create Hotspot in Same Document

1. In Adobe Acrobat go to "Edit PDF"

2. Click on "Link" and select "Add/Edit Web or Document Link"

3. Use the "cross" to create a rectangle on the area you want to hyperlink

4. To create a hyperlink to another page in your PDF click on "Go to a page view" and then click on "Next" button and then click on "Set link". 

5. Right click on the hyperlink and choose "Properties"

6. Go to "Actions" and then click on "Edit" button to select the page you want to link to within the PDF and then click on "Ok" button to add the hotspot.

Create Hotspot to link to Another Document

To create a hotspot to link to another document in Pitcher follow these steps:

1. Click on "Open a web page" and then click on "Next" button.

2. Check for the FileID in Pitcher Admin for the file you want to link to (this file has to already be uploaded on Pitcher Admin) 

3. For PPTX and PDF files enter the file ID as show in the below example: 

pitcher://FileID/page → "pitcher://60062/1"

Note: Page indication is necessary if you want the user to land on a specific page of the document. For example select "1" if you want to land on the first page of a document.

 4. For videos files enter the file ID as shown in the below example: 

pitcher://FileID → "pitcher://50261"   

5. Once you have created a hotspot, you can easily copy/past it within your document.