Enable Mouse Back/Forward Buttons in Acrobat Reader

Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago at 2:57 am. 0 comments

Adobe’s Acrobat Reader does not support my Intellimouse back/forward navigation buttons like Internet Explorer and Firefox do.  Paste this little hotkey snippet into your autohotkey startup to enable this functionality.

#IfWinActive , ahk_class AcrobatSDIWindow
XButton1::Send !{LEFT}
XButton2::Send !{RIGHT}
#IfWinActive

Instant PDF Search

Posted 4 months, 1 week ago at 6:30 pm. 0 comments

I just scanned a reference book I use daily in the kitchen called Keeping Food Fresh. I wanted to quickly and easily look up items from the book, so I created a Launchy command that will allow me to look up a string in any Acrobat file, and open the file at the position of the first match.

All I have to do is type “alt-space,” food, tab, and then the search term.  The script does the rest.

The Autohotkey script is as follows:

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