

On the “General” tab provide a meaningful name (so that you can later recognize what this button is supposed to do), and add the tooltip you want to display: Once the button is placed, double-click on the button on the document to bring up the full properties dialog for this form element (or right-click on the button and select “Properties” from the menu). To accomplish this, open up the form editor (Tools>Forms>Edit) and then place a button on the document where you want to trigger the tooltip (e.g.

The first method is straight forward and only uses a button that does not have any function besides showing the tooltip that is associated with that button: Both do however require Adobe Acrobat, this cannot be done in the Adobe Reader, even though Reader can be used to display these documents without a problem. The good news here is that none of these require any JavaScript programming. There are two different ways you can handle this.
ADD BORDER TO TEXT IN ADOBE ACROBAT PDF
Have you ever thought that it would be nice to add some “floating text” to a PDF document that can be shown and hidden based on where the user’s mouse cursor is? This is useful, for example, if you want to provide some help for filling in a form field, or an explanation of a word on a page.įor the purpose of this post, let’s assume you want to explain one of more terms in your document with a popup dictionary entry when the user places the cursor over the word in question.
