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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By : Urszula Witherell
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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By: Urszula Witherell

Overview of this book

Adobe Acrobat can help you solve a wide variety of problems that crop up when you work with PDF documents on a daily basis. The most common file type for business and communication, this compact portable document format is widely used to collect as well as present information, as well as being equipped with many lesser-known features that can keep your content secure while making it easy to share. From archive features that will keep your documents available for years to come to features related to accessibility, organizing, annotating, editing, and whatever else you use PDFs for, Acrobat has the answer if you know where to look. Designed for professionals who likely already use Adobe Acrobat Pro, this guide introduces many ideas, features, and online services, sorted and organized for you to easily find the topics relevant to your work and requirements. You can jump to any chapter without sifting through prior pages to explore the tools and functions explained through step-by-step instructions and examples. The information in some chapters may build on existing knowledge, but you are not expected to have an advanced level of prior experience. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the many capabilities of PDFs and how Acrobat makes it possible to work in a way that you will never miss good old ink and paper.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Automating the creation of bookmarks

Bookmarks in Acrobat open in the Bookmarks pane. They work a bit like a table of contents, but instead of being placed on a document page, they are located in a pane. Bookmarks can be added in Acrobat; however, the most efficient way to add them, especially in long documents, is to use InDesign functions. There are two ways to create them in InDesign:

  • The automatic way, using settings to generate a table of contents
  • The manual way, using the InDesign Bookmarks panel

We will explore both methods next. Here are the steps for the first method, the automatic one.

Creating bookmarks using a generated table of contents

We will generate a table of contents that builds entries based on headings formatted with paragraph styles. This will also allow us to create bookmarks based on the same headings. Here are the steps:

  1. Open an InDesign document that consistently uses styles for headings. I will continue working with the example...