X-Ray Magazine v5n6 Sonar Bookends Activate for Adobe Acrobat 6, 7, or 8

By Cyndie Shaffstall

While it's true that Acrobat natively automatically activates some links, Sonar Bookends Activate sets the bar and continues to maintain its position as the most-advanced auto-activation Plug-in. Developed by Virginia Systems (also the makers of Sonar Bookends indexing and table of contents products), it is a good stand-alone solution or a good next step for those of you who create books and catalogues in a desktop-publishing application.

Installation


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With the release of Acrobat 8, Adobe changed the installation process for Plug-ins. Without a successful install, we cannot explore the application. Let's take moment to walk through this.

If you are using a Mac, select the Acrobat application.

Press command + i (get info)

If it's not already visible, click the disclose arrow to display the list of
Plug-ins.

Click add

Navigate to the folder titled Sonar Bookends Activate.acroplugin for the version of Acrobat that you are using and click choose.

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Figure 1 On the Mac, installs are handled in the get info dialogue box.

If you are a Mac user and you have performed the steps correctly, the Plug-in should be displayed as in figure 1 above. If it's not, do this:

From within Acrobat, go to Acrobat > preferences.

In the left pane, click general.

in the bottom right panel (application startup), uncheck (if it is checked) use only certified Plug-ins. Once done, your dialogue box should look like that shown below in figure 2.

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Figure 2 While Sonar Bookends Activate is not usually an issue, some Plug-ins will not load if you are using the certified Plug-ins only option.

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About the author:

Cyndie Shaffstall is publisher, editor, and contributing author to X-Ray Magazine. She began her career working in print and type shops. At the introduction of the Macintosh to the print industry in the mid-80s, Shaffstall became a corporate trainer helping print-shop professionals adopt and adapt to the Mac. She has authored or co-authored many books on computer software, and self-published her first, QuarkXPress: Making the Most of Your Negative Experiences and her most recent, QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips. In 1995, Shaffstall founded ThePowerXChange, a software-distribution company dedicated to extensions technology. In addition to ThePowerXChange, Shaffstall is the managing member of StrappyArt, LLC, the distributor of StrappyArt, which she invented in 2006. She has recently joined Spider Trainers, LLC, as the SEO/SMO advisor. She is also director of QuarkAlliance at Quark, Inc.