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Creating bookmarks automatically

Creating bookmarks automatically - InDesign Tutorial

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Creating bookmarks automatically

- [Instructor] Any PDF document longer than a few pages, that's meant to be read on screen, needs bookmarks, and these let your reader jump directly to the section of the document that they want to read. For example, here in Acrobat, I can simply come over here to the bookmarks pane and click on one of these bookmarks. That takes me right to that page. Pretty much all PDF readers can show bookmarks, even most of the PDF readers on tablets. It's a really good idea to add bookmarks to your InDesign document, and then they'll show up in the PDF. Let's switch back to InDesign and see how to do it. You can create bookmarks automatically based on paragraph styles or manually, one at a time. In this movie, I'll show you the automatic method, and then in the next movie, I'll show you how you can do it manually. Automatic bookmarks are based on InDesign's table of contents feature, which in turn is based on the paragraph styles you've applied to your text. Here's yet another reason why it's so…

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