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Adding finishing touches in Acrobat

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Adding finishing touches in Acrobat

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- [Instructor] While InDesign can make terrific interactive PDF files, there are some things that it just can't do yet. That means sometimes you have to apply finishing touches to your PDF, in Acrobat. For example, after I export a PDF from InDesign, I almost always open it up in Acrobat, head right up to the file menu, and then choose Properties. To fine tune the initial view settings, I'll click on Initial View in these tabs at the top. As you know, some of these can be controlled in the export PDF dialog box, like page layout and magnification. But, other features can only be controlled here in Acrobat, for example, this navigation tab popup menu. If I've gone through all the trouble of making bookmarks in my PDF, then I want the viewer of my PDF to know about it. I'm going to choose Bookmarks Panel and Page. Down here, you could choose what page to open to, although I usually just leave that set to one, but it's up to you. In an earlier chapter, I mentioned the show popup menu…

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