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064 Creating bookmarks for PDFs

064 Creating bookmarks for PDFs - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

064 Creating bookmarks for PDFs

When you open up a PDF in Acrobat or in Reader, it's a lot easier to navigate if the person who created the PDF was thoughtful enough to include bookmarks. Here is the InDesign CS6 user manual for example, which as you can see, 738 scintillating pages, but if you open up the Bookmarks panel in Acrobat or in Reader, you say, ah, it's a lot easier. Here is where they talk about Tables. And there is a disclosure triangle, so if I want to see all about Formatting tables, that's one example. Another example is in the Print & ePublishing Conference that InDesign Secrets puts on every year. Here is the attendee handout from the 2012 conference in San Francisco. You see there are 440 pages all worth of handouts, but because there are bookmarks, it makes it a lot easier for people to find their way around. So like in conference info, getting around, here is the schedule getting around the conference. Here is the floorplan, and so on, and then the actual handout themselves, iPad and Android…

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