Launch Adobe Acrobat Pro on your computer. Open the PDF file into which you want to insert a text link to a YouTube video. Minimize Adobe Acrobat Pro, then open your Web browser. Go to the YouTube website and load the page for the video that you want to link in your PDF file. Highlight the URL address of the YouTube video page and press “Ctrl-C” on your keyboard to copy the link to your system clipboard. Maximize Adobe Acrobat Pro. Scroll to the point in your PDF document where you want to insert the YouTube video link. Press “Enter” to create a carriage return or line break if necessary. Enter descriptive text for the video link. Type “Click here to watch the video” or something similar. Highlight the line of text you created. Click the “chain-link” icon on the Acrobat Pro toolbar. A pop-up window opens, prompting you to enter the URL for the page that you want to open when the person viewing the document clicks the link. Press “Ctrl-V” to paste the URL address for the YouTube video page into the “URL” field of the pop-up window. Click “OK” to close the pop-up window and return to the main PDF editor page. Click “File,” then click “Save” on the menu bar. Open the new version of the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer application. Click the newly added text link in the PDF file to open a new browser window or tab and view the YouTube video. If you want to create really lively and interactive PDF files, you can insert YouTube videos directly into your documents with a special widget. Visit the PDF Developer Junkie Blog, download the add-in and save it to your Acrobat installation folder. Detailed instructions for using the add-in can be found on the developer’s website. Writer Bio
