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• • April 5, 2018 at 2:24 am #102857
    Anders Solberg

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    Hi

    Is there any way to make a button/hyperlink that takes me back to the last visited page in a document?

    For example;

    I’m on page 43 and I go to page 22 using a hyperlink, I want to go back to page 43 from page 22
    I’m on page 34 and I go to page 22 using a hyperlink, I want to go back to page 34 from page 22

    Is there any way of making a “smart-button” that can track my last visited page, and bring me there without me having to create different buttons for different page-directions?

  • April 5, 2018 at 5:12 am #102859
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Acrobat has a concept of “Preview View” (On the Mac, the shortcut is Command-left-arrow to “Go Back”)
    You should be able to attach a javascript to a button that triggers the app.goBack(); script, but I have not tried it.

  • April 5, 2018 at 5:47 am #102861
    Vinny –

    Member

    I believe you can add this action to the button in Indesign itself ^^
    Place your button on your master page (assuming you want it to appear to all of your pages).
    Then select it, open the Button and form panel, add an action and choose “Go to previous view”.
    If you check your button properties in Acrobat, you should see it executes a Menu command > View > Navigation > Previous view.
    Of course, as usual with interactive PDF, do not expect buttons to work properly outside Acrobat pro or reader…

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