Automatically generate buttons in PDF

Question

Hi everyone,

I am looking for some creative ideas for making numbers clickable in PDF file. The PDF file is very large, and each page contains many numbers in the following format:

[00-00]

What is the best route to explore? Right now, the only idea that I have brainstormed is:

• The PDF is created from Adobe InDesign. Perhaps "hooking" into InDesign before the PDF is created

I am looking to do this in a way that will be very automated, as there are a lot of numbers on a lot of pages.

Thanks!

Answer 1

There's various clever things you can do with grep styles in CS4 and CS5 - might be worth a go. There's also a lot of scripting you can do in InDesign using JavaScript - I'd start from there.