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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)

Creating and editing bookmarks and links

In this section, we will understand the purpose and process of creating and editing bookmarks and links.

Navigating a paper book requires page numbers, running headers and footers, or tabs. We can see all the pages as we turn them. A PDF, however, is just a flat image on the screen, so functionality to find the content that a reader is looking for is provided by bookmarks or links in addition to the obvious, such as scroll bars and page navigation toolbars.

Working with bookmarks

Bookmarks are so important that they have their own navigation pane, which is available by default. They are a bit like a TOC in a document that may not have one. At a glance, a reader may get an idea about the volume of content. Click on the Bookmarks icon to open the pane:

Figure 4.11 – Bookmarks pane

Figure 4.11 – Bookmarks pane

As you see, bookmarks may represent headings or other information that you want to provide quick access to, they may be...