User Guide
ARTS PDF Aerialist User Guide
Productivity
3.5. Productivity Tutorials
Figure 12. Example custom toolbar
The Productivity feature set contains a number of handy tools, and it also allows you to
create customizable toolbars. Using its Tools Editor, you can create toolbar buttons that
perform Acrobat commands like Execute JavaScript, Execute Menu Item, PDF
Consultant, etc. The Menu Item Execute command allows you to create a tool that will
emulate any Menu Item command in Acrobat with one click of a button.
Functions internal to ARTS PDF Aerialist such as Build Bookmarks, Stamp Document,
Create Link Reports, and Split Document are also accessible from within the Productivity
feature set. This allows you to streamline your use of ARTS PDF Aerialist by creating
buttons that can perform predefined functions with a single click.
For example, if you are always receiving PDF documents with a consistent heading
structure, you could use the Productivity feature with Bookmark functions to create a
toolbar button that uses the Build function to build bookmarks from the document’s
headings, instead of always having to open the document and manually select the same
headings each time.
This section provides step-by-step information on how to add commands to user-defined
tools of the Productivity feature.
3.5.1. Using the Open File Command
The ‘File Open’ command allows you to open PDF files from the toolbar. It is very
useful for giving fast access to regularly accessed PDFs.
1. If you don’t have an existing customized toolbar, create or import a toolbar
using the ‘Toolbar Manager’.
2. On the customizable toolbar, click the ‘Add or Remove Tools’ button toolbar.
Alternatively, go to 'Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Aerialist > Productivity > toolbar
name > Add or Remove Tool' from ARTS PDF Aerialist’s Productivity toolbar.
3. Click ‘New’.
4. Enter the ‘Name’, ‘Menu text’ and ‘Tooltip’ for the tool.
5. Select an image for the tool (edit if required).
6. Under the ‘ARTS PDF Tools’ Available Commands, select ‘Open File’.
7. Click the ‘Add >>‘ button, and you will be prompted to select the PDF file that
the button will link to. Browse to the file and click ‘OK’.
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