I have received specific requests regarding hyperlinkining with Adobe Acrobat, and it seems that the functionality readily available in Acrobat Pro 10 does not completely satisfy the requests I've been given. What I need is the ability to jump to or open to the specific page or paragraph number cited to in a legal brief, with easy ability to return to the page or paragraph number of the brief from which the reader jumped. I have tried two of Acrobat's choices to achieve this goal: "Go to a Page" and "Open a File". Each choice presents its own limitation. With "Go to a Page", I can successfully navigate the reader to the exact page or paragraph number of a cited document. However, the reader must then independently figure out how to navigate back to the page of the brief he/she was reading before he/she jumped to the cited document. With "Open a File", there seems to be no choice but to take the reader to paragraph 1 of page 1 of the cited document. However, once the reader has independently navigated him/herself to the exact cited page or paragraph number, he/she can easily close the newly opened file and return to the brief exactly at the paragraph from where he/she jumped. What I'd like to do is use functionality from both options: I'd like a new file to open when a reader clicks on a hyperlink. I'd like that new file to open to the cited page or paragraph number. I'd like the reader to then be able to close the new file and return to reading the brief where he/she left off.
In 2011, our firm outsourced a job of this nature to a graphic design firm. They returned to us exactly what we asked for. However, it all appears to have been achieved through Adobe Acrobat, rather than a proprietary product. One element that made it particularly easy for the reader to navigate was the design firm's use of Acrobat's Bookmark feature. Each hyperlinked document opened with the bookmark panel open, with one available bookmark that read "Previous Document". Clicking this bookmark closed the hyperlinked document and returned the reader to the exact page of the brief that he/she was reading before clicking the hyperlink. This exact functionality is what I'd like to achieve. Please let me know if an Acrobat expert can assist. Thank you.