Saturday, September 6, 2008

Making bookmarks to go to pages in the document


When you create a new bookmark to another page in the same PDF document, Acrobat records not only the page but also the page view and the magnification setting in effect as part of the bookmark’s destination. This means that the most productive way to create manual bookmarks is to first navigate to the destination page and make any desired change to the page view and/or magnification settings before you begin creating the bookmark. Although you can designate the destination page as part of the process of creating the new bookmark, going to the page and setting things up beforehand just makes the process all the easier and more efficient.

With this tip in mind, the steps for manually creating a bookmark to a new page in the same document are as follows:

1. Launch Acrobat and then open the PDF document to which you want to add bookmarks.

2. If necessary, open the Navigation pane by pressing F6 and click the Bookmarks tab to display its palette on top.

3. Using the buttons on the Navigation toolbar or navigation buttons on the Document window status bar, go to the destination page in the document for the first bookmark.

4. If you want the destination page to be displayed in a different page view or magnification, select the appropriate options from the View menu or click the appropriate buttons on Zoom toolbar and the Document status bar.

5. Choose the New Bookmark command on the Options menu at the top of the Bookmarks palette or right-click the Document window to open its context menu, and then click New Bookmark (you can also press Ctrl+B on Windows or Ô+B on the Mac). A new bookmark icon named Untitled is added.

6. Type a descriptive name for your new bookmark and then press the Enter key (Return on the Mac) or click the mouse pointer somewhere outside of the bookmark name to add it to the list in the Bookmarks palette.

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