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Open Link in New Tab

When a link is present that points to a location within the open PDF, or another PDF, right-click should offer the option to Open Link in New Tab. We are all accustomed to doing this in our browsers and it would be a great addition to Acrobat, especially helpful when bouncing back and forth between pages. Thanks.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hello Ayush,
    No i am not referring to browser tabs. (Most browsers already have commands and shortcuts for this kind of thing.) I am referring to tabs within Acrobat.

    Where this comes up is in long PDFs (like instruction or installation manuals) where it is often beneficial to keep multiple pages open at the same time.You can open a new window from the Window menu but it opens a completely separate application frame. You can drag this over your first open window to create a new tab, but that is a few extra steps.

    Similarly, these long documents often contain internal links to other pages within the document. Currently there is no option to open those links in a new tab as opposed to switching the current view to the link destination.

    So the two things I would like to see are 1) an addition to the Window menu "Open View in New Tab", and 2) a right-click option when clicking on a link "Open Link in New Tab".

    I hope that makes sense and clears up any confusion about my request. I think these are both very handy and worthwhile productivity enhancements.

    Regards,
    Geoff Briggs
    DeForest Architects
    Seattle, USA

  • AdminAyush Jain (Lead Software Engineer, Adobe) commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi,

    Thanks for Reaching us for your queries. Just a quick ask that do you want the functionality to open Weblinks in a new tab, for PDF's opened in Acrobat Application or PDF's launched in browsers with Acrobat ?

    I believe you are talking about the latter one i.e to right click weblinks in pdf's launched in browser and then to have a context menu option to open that weblink in a new tab in the browser.
    Please correct me if its otherwise. ?

    We will surely help you further in this.

    -Ayush Jain