6Create Navigation for PDF Documents

HOW TO…

• Create bookmarks

• Edit bookmarks

• Use thumbnails

• Create links

• Create a navigation menu

When you create a PDF document within an authoring application, navigation devices are added to the document. PDF documents have two types of automatically created navigation devices: bookmarks and page thumbnails. Bookmarks and page thumbnails have their own panels in the Navigation pane.

When you create a PDF document, one thumbnail is created for each page. Viewers of your PDF document can navigate to a specific page of the document by clicking its thumbnail. Alternatively, for a single-page document, they can navigate to a specific part of the page, as you learn in this chapter. Bookmarks, on the other ...

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