Adding Navigation to the Package - Adobe Acrobat and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction - page 106

9
Adding Navigation to the Package
How often have you downloaded a PDF from the Web only to have it be just like a paper book? All you
could do is turn the pages - the document's author left out many great features of Acrobat, and in so doing
sold the work short.
Acrobat contains navigation features that let you design files that work similarly to Web pages. The
navigation features give you extra control of the document, and, as a result, more power in conveying your
information. The most commonly used navigational structures in a PDF document are links and bookmarks.
Links work in much the same way as those seen on a Web page, but can also be used with a number of
alternative actions. Bookmarks are a type of navigational structure that use a navigation panel to link
content based on a structural hierarchy created manually, from styles or headings in a source document, or
derived from the document's structure. Like links, bookmarks can be used with a variety of actions beyond
simple navigational hyperlinks.
A PDF document, with all its features, more closely resembles a Web site than an ordinary printed
document. You expect a Web site to have a navigational structure; you can design much the same structure
in a PDF document as well.
In this Chapter
In this chapter you see how to add navigation to allow your reader to move through your document as you
learn how to:
x Design a navigation strategy for a project
x Build and configure bookmarks
x Create bookmarks using a tagged file
x Set links and add actions
x Use buttons to control actions and navigation in a document
x Create duplicates of buttons throughout a project.
111