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

Sonar Bookends Activate	Sonar Bookends Activate

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.

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.

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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