Compare converted pages with current web pages

To open a page or web link, do one of the following:

1. To open the current page in a web browser, choose Advanced > Web Capture > Open Page In Web Browser.
2. To open the bookmarked page, right-click/Control-click a tagged bookmark, and choose Open Page In Web Browser.
3. To open a linked page, right-click/Control-click a link in the PDF version of the web page, and choose Open Web Link In Browser.
4. The browser opens in a new application window to the page you specify.

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Refresh converted web pages

You can refresh web pages in a PDF to retrieve the most up-to-date version from the website. When you refresh, you download the entire website or link again and build a new PDF. The resulting new PDF lists any pages where components have changed, including text, web links, embedded filenames, and formatting. New pages are downloaded if they have been added to the site. The changed pages are listed as bookmarks in the Bookmarks panel under a bookmark labeled New and Changed Pages.

You can refresh web pages only if Save Refresh Commands was selected when the pages were first downloaded.

Note: When you refresh web pages, both the original PDF pages and the refreshed version are retained. To keep an archive of changes made to a website, save both versions.

1. Choose Advanced > Web Capture > Refresh Pages.
2. To view new and changed pages, select Create Bookmarks For New And Changed Pages. Then specify the scope of the updated tagged bookmarks that you want to compare:
   Compare Only Page Text To Detect Changed Pages
   - Compares only the text on the pages.
   Compare All Page Components To Detect Changed Pages
   - Compares all page components, including text, images, web links, embedded filenames, and formatting.
   
3. To not resubmit any previously submitted form data, deselect Resubmit Form Data. Be careful if you have Resubmit Form Data selected because it can result in duplicate purchases or other submissions. This option is available only if a form and query results are on the pages.
4. To change which pages are updated by refreshing, select Edit Refresh Commands List, select the URLs you want, and click OK.
5. Click Refresh.

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Get information on converted web pages

You can display a dialog box with the current page’s URL, title, date and time downloaded, and other information by going to Advanced > Web Capture > Page Info.

Converted web pages

Links and bookmarks in web pages

You can work with a PDF document created from web pages the same way you work with any other PDF. Depending on how you configured Acrobat, clicking a link on a converted web page adds the page for that link to the end of the PDF, if it isn’t already included.

Note: Remember that one web page can become multiple PDF pages. A web page is a single topic (or URL) from a website and is often one continuous HTML page. When you convert a web page to PDF, it may be divided into multiple standard-size PDF pages.

When you first create a PDF from web pages, tagged bookmarks are generated if Create Bookmarks is selected in the Web Page Conversion Settings dialog box. A standard (untagged) bookmark representing the web server appears at the top of the Bookmarks tab. Under that bookmark is a tagged bookmark for each web page downloaded; the tagged bookmark’s name comes from the page’s HTML title or the URL, if no title is present. Tagged web bookmarks are initially all at the same level, but you can rearrange them and nest them in family groups to help keep track of the hierarchy of material on the web pages.

If Create PDF Tags is selected when you create a PDF from web pages, structure information that corresponds to the HTML structure of the original pages is stored in the PDF. You can use this information to add tagged bookmarks to the file for paragraphs and other items that have HTML elements.

Trigger types

Triggers determine how actions are activated in media clips, pages, and form fields. For example, you can specify a movie or sound clip to play when a page is opened or closed. The available options depend on the specified page element.

You can use the following triggers for media clips and form fields (not links or bookmarks):

Mouse Up

When the mouse button is released after a click. This is the most common button trigger, because it gives the user one last chance to drag the pointer off the button and not activate the action.

Page Visible (media clips only)

When the page containing the media clip is visible, regardless of whether it is the current page. It’s possible for a page to be visible without being the current page, such as when a continuous page layout displays pages side-by-side.

Page Invisible (media clips only)

When the page containing the media clip is moved out of view.

Page Enter (media clips only)

When the page containing the media clip becomes the current page.

Page Exit (media clips only)

When a user leaves the page that contains the media clip.

Mouse Down

When the mouse button is clicked (without being released). In most cases, Mouse Up is the preferred trigger.

Mouse Enter

When the pointer enters the field or play area.

Mouse Exit

When the pointer exits the field or play area.

On Receive Focus (media clips only)

When the link area receives focus, either through a mouse action or tabbing.

On Lose Focus (media clips only)

When the focus moves to a different link area.

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Action types

You can assign the following actions to links, bookmarks, pages, media clips, and form fields:

Execute A Menu Item
Executes a specified menu command as the action.

Go To A 3D View
Jumps to the specified 3D view.

Go To A Page View
Jumps to the specified destination in the current document or in another document.

Import Form Data
Brings in form data from another file, and places it in the active form.

Open A File
Launches and opens a file. If you are distributing a PDF file with a link to another file, the reader needs the native application of that linked file to open it successfully. (You may need to add opening preferences for the target file.)

Open A Web Link
Jumps to the specified destination on the Internet. You can use http, ftp, and mailto protocols to define your link.

Play A Sound
Plays the specified sound file. The sound is embedded into the PDF document in a cross-platform format that plays in Windows and Mac OS.

Play Media (Acrobat 5 Compatible)
Plays the specified QuickTime or AVI movie that was created as Acrobat 5-compatible. The specified movie must be embedded in a PDF document.

Play Media (Acrobat 6 And Later Compatible)
Plays a specified movie that was created as Acrobat 6-compatible. The specified movie must be embedded in a PDF document.

Read An Article
Follows an article thread in the active document or in another PDF document.

Reset A Form
Clears previously entered data in a form. You can control the fields that are reset with the Select Fields dialog box.

Run A JavaScript
Runs the specified JavaScript.

Set Layer Visibility
Determines which layer settings are active. Before you add this action, specify the appropriate layer settings.

Show/Hide A Field
Toggles between showing and hiding a field in a PDF document. This option is especially useful in form fields. For example, if you want an object to pop up whenever the pointer is over a button, you can set an action that shows a field on the Mouse Enter trigger and hides a field on Mouse Exit.

Submit A Form
Sends the form data to the specified URL.

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