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I'm fairly new to Acrobat, and I'm putting together a quick one-hour class. We're going to talk about linking, among other things, but i'm trying to figure out why I would use a bookmark over a link and vice versa. They both 'link' to other locations, in or out of the document, including web pages. One is in the doc, one is in the navigation panel. Since i'm not a big end-user, could someone give me some reasons? Or is it just what a creator prefers? Sometimes that's the case in other programs, depending on what's being done. Thanks.
Links vs Bookmarks? Why would it ever be either/or?
Other than traffic flow "round-about" PDFs to facilitate end-user travel through an eLibrary or PDF files holding simple content (a memo or whatever) PDFs without appropriate use of both is like driving in the rain with no wiper blades and the top down.
For predominately text based content it is, fundamentally, a usability issue. Good use of links and bookmarks make the documents easier to use than falling off a log in the water. Add catalog indexes and user wean themselves off paper versions at a remarkable rate.Of course, there is always the exception. The sample PDFs at Bob Connolly's site (pdfpictures.com),
for instance [url]http://www.pdfpictures.com/pdf/download.php?name=aruba-coolprograms.pdf[/url]
do just fine as is 8^)
Articles worth a read.
Duff Johnson's
[url]http://www.acrobatusers.com/articles/2006/08/bookmarks_why_how/index.php[/url]
Shlomo Perets'
[url]http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/article.asp?ContentID=best_practices_2_creating_ef&gid=6567[/url]From Adobe Education (which, by the way, is an *excellent* resource of "how-to").
http://www.adobe.com/education/webtech/CS/unit_site_dev2/ab2_bookmarks.htm
From Acrobat for Legal Professionals
[url]http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2008/03/pdf_packages_for_case_analysis_c.php[/url]
And an eclectic assortment of others.
[url]http://www.tentonbooks.com/videos/AcrobatBookmarksPt1.php[/url]
[url]http://www.tentonbooks.com/videos/AcrobatBookmarksPt2.php[/url]
[url]http://www.computer-advice.info/2008/08/30/adobe-acrobat-bookmarks/[/url]
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