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Interactive Features
TABLE 8.60 Additional entries specific to a hide action
KEY
TYPE
VALUE
S
name
dictionary,
text string, or
array
(Required)
The type of action that this dictionary describes; must be
Hide
for a hide
action.
(Required)
The annotation or annotations to be hidden or shown, specified in any
of the following forms:
T
•
An indirect reference to an annotation dictionary
•
A text string giving the fully qualified field name of an interactive form field
whose associated widget annotation or annotations are to be affected (see “Field
•
An array of such dictionaries or text strings
H
boolean
(Optional)
A flag indicating whether to hide the annotation (
true
) or show it (
false
).
Default value:
true
.
Named Actions
named actions (PDF 1.2)
that PDF viewer applications are
expected to support; further names may be added in the future. (See implementa-
tion notes 111 and 112 in Appendix H.)
TABLE 8.61 Named actions
NAME
ACTION
NextPage
PrevPage
FirstPage
LastPage
Go to the next page of the document.
Go to the previous page of the document.
Go to the first page of the document.
Go to the last page of the document.
Note:
Viewer applications may support additional, nonstandard named actions, but
any document using them is not portable. If the viewer encounters a named action
that is inappropriate for a viewing platform, or if the viewer does not recognize the
name, it should take no action.