SECTION 8.5
653
Actions
TABLE 8.48 Action types
ACTION TYPE
DESCRIPTION
DISCUSSED IN SECTION
GoTo
GoToR
Go to a destination in the current document.
(“Go-to remote”) Go to a destination in another
document.
(“Go-to embedded”;
PDF 1.6)
Go to a destination in an
embedded file.
Launch an application, usually to open a file.
Begin reading an article thread.
Resolve a uniform resource identifier.
(PDF 1.2)
Play a sound.
(PDF 1.2)
Play a movie.
(PDF 1.2)
Set an annotation’s Hidden flag.
(PDF 1.2)
Execute an action predefined by the viewer
application.
(PDF 1.2)
Send data to a uniform resource locator.
(PDF 1.2)
Set fields to their default values.
(PDF 1.2)
Import field values from a file.
(PDF 1.3)
Execute a JavaScript script.
(PDF 1.5)
Set the states of optional content groups.
(PDF 1.5)
Controls the playing of multimedia content.
(PDF 1.5)
Updates the display of a document, using a
transition dictionary.
(PDF 1.6)
Set the current view of a 3D annotation
GoToE
Launch
Thread
URI
Sound
Movie
Hide
Named
SubmitForm
ResetForm
ImportData
JavaScript
SetOCGState
Rendition
Trans
GoTo3DView
Note:
Previous versions of the PDF specification described an action type known as
the
set-state action;
this type of action is now considered obsolete and its use is no
longer recommended. An additional action type, the
no-op action,
was defined in
PDF 1.2 but never implemented; it is no longer defined and should be ignored.