Linking PDF's to an Event

Linking PDF's to an Event

You can link a PDF to an event in two different ways:
1.  Link the PDF as an External File
or
2.  Convert the PDF to images and link the images to the event.

1.  Link the PDF as an External File
Here is how to Link an Event to an External File:  

By linking a PDF as an External File, CrimeLines or TimeLaw will open Adobe Acrobat (or whatever other program is associated with PDF files on your computer).   This may be what the User wants to do - to open Acrobat and use its functionality.

2.  Converting a PDF
You can link one or all pages (as images) of a PDF to an Event.  The benefit of linking a PDF this way is that the User can highlight, annotate, zoom, and otherwise markup the images using the Annotation Tool of CrimeLines and TimeLaw.  To learn more about the Annotation Tool click here:

Click on the BLUE + CONVERT PDF button, navigate to the PDF folder in your projects assets folder (or where ever your PDF file is), find your PDF that you want to add and click OPEN.  The PDF Conversion Window will appear.  Click the BLUE CONVERT PDF button.  The settings are already preset for you - so you do not need to change those settings. 

Once the conversion is finished, a folder is created (that has the name of the PDF ) in the Images Folder inside the Assets Folder of the Project,  Each of the pages of that PDF will now appear as jpg's in that folder and will also appear as linked images in the Linked Images List.   These images can be viewed and annotated in the Media Viewer.

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