From the course: InDesign: Interactive PDFs
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Page and anchor hyperlinks - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Interactive PDFs
Page and anchor hyperlinks
- [Instructor] In the last movie, I talked about making hyperlinks that point outside your document, such as URLs, and email links. Now let's talk about navigation, that is, hyperlinks that take you somewhere inside your PDF. And these are called page links and anchor links Page and anchor links turns out to be super important especially when it comes to reading PDFs on tablet or mobile devices. Most people who make interactive PDFs use buttons to navigate from one page to another. And I'll be talking about buttons on in this chapter. But unfortunately, buttons are not reliable on mobile so I generally recommend that people use hyperlinks instead which almost always work. Now, before we make our first page or anchor link, I want to point out that if you've already used InDesign's table of contents feature or the index feature or the cross references feature, all of those page numbers are automatically turned into hyperlink's for you when you export your PDF. Those kinds of automatic…
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