Chapter 11. Adding Simple Navigation Features

If you intend for your PDF document to be read onscreen, you’ll make life much easier for your reader if you provide some minimal tools for navigating the document. The easiest—and most consistently useful—navigation tools you can add to your document are bookmarks, links, and articles. These tools are the topics of this chapter.

Adding Bookmarks

Bookmarks constitute a clickable table of contents that reside in the Bookmarks navigation pane (Figure 11.1). Clicking a bookmark takes you to the corresponding view in the document.

Bookmarks make up a clickable table of contents that resides in the Bookmarks pane.

Figure 11.1. Bookmarks make up a clickable table of contents that resides in ...

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