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I embedded a toolbar button into a PDF but it shows up in a floating window in Acrobat 7. How can I dock my toolbar button into the toolbar?

April 26, 2017Acrobat button dock embedded floating PDF shows Toolbar window

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I embedded a toolbar button into a PDF but it shows up in a floating window in Acrobat 7. How can I dock my toolbar button into the toolbar?

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This is a change that Adobe made in Acrobat 7- toolbar buttons created with JavaScript and embedded into PDFs now show up in their own floating toolbar. While the change is slightly irritating for those that are used to the single, docked, toolbar, it’s actually an improvement since it solves an array of button management and security problems. Each document has it’s own toolbar that’s only visible when that document is in the foreground and the buttons can only effect their host documents. No more problems with confusing the user over which button is associated with which document and which buttons are application buttons versus document buttons. The floating document toolbar isn’t supposed to be docked, but it can be. When a floating toolbar is visible, right click on the toolbar area and select “Doc All Toolbars” from the popup menu. This is an over-site in Acrobat and may be fixed in some future version so don’t count on it.