How to Create Links in a PDF (Acrobat) Document
Creating bookmarks is one way to make your Acrobat (PDF) document easier to navigate. You can also add in-text clickable links directly to a page. This is especially useful in a table of contents or an index. To create or modify PDF documents, you must have the "full" version of Acrobat, which includes the Distiller program; you can't create PDFs with the free Reader software.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
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Select the text you'd like to become the link (the text the reader will click on to link to a new location).
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Click the Link (the one that looks like a chain) tool, or choose Link from the Tools menu.
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Use the Link tool to draw a box around the text or area you want linkable. The Create Link dialog box will appear.
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Use the Acrobat navigation tools to display the page you want the link to take you to.
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Click the Set Link button in the Create Link dialog box to establish your link.
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Tips & Warnings
"Bookmarks" are different from links; you also click them to go to a page, but they appear in a separate pane to the left of the PDF document.
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Comments
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Remember it works only in older versions of AR. The bad news is that in Adobe Reader 9 you can't create links, for known reasons. I Better stick with the old ones...
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computermacgyve
Jun 08, 2009
For Acrobat 5, make sure "Goto View" is selected as the action. Then navigate to the page and click "Set Link" -
Zahzel Ehows
Apr 06, 2009
I will do this. TY
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Zahzel Ehows
Apr 06, 2009
I will do this. TY
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doban
Apr 04, 2009
Thanks for easy to understand info on how to create links in a PDF document.
