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I want to create a special bookmark, which will take me only to a particular graphic. So instead of a certain page, this bookmark will take me to the graphics. So I'm going to create a new bookmark by clicking on the new bookmark icon here, and it creates a new empty bookmark, and I can see the text that's selected. I 'm going to have this bookmark always take me to this graphic called binocular perspectives; so with the text selected I'll just type in the name of that graphic and I will click it to make sure it is selected, and I see it is selected because it is highlighted. So with that bookmark selected I am going to the bookmark popup menu and choose bookmark properties. It brings up this dialogue box, which is pretty cool because we actually have a lot of different options here. But I am going to talk about going to a particular view - if you click on action type menu you can see we have many action types to choose from. Generally bookmarks take you to a particular view and a view is a combination of particular page, in a Acrobat document and a particular zoom ratio. So you could have to go to the page and zoom out to fit the page entirely in your window, or in this case what I am going to have it do is zoom into my graphic. But you can see we have different options, we can also have a bookmark execute a menu item. So you could have one that said print this page only and you can have it execute the print command. Or import foreign data or run a java script or open a movie. All sorts of different options and we will talk about these in later lessons. This bottom button here: use this button to modify the destination view for this action is very important, if we click on edit destination it changes into a popup menu with different types of options available to us. The first one is called fix, and it displays the magnification level and page position that were in effect when you created the link, or the bookmark as a destination. So if I were looking at exactly what I wanted when I created my new bookmark, I would use this one and click set destination. But that's not correct for me right now - fit view is the other option and I am going to use fit view because fit view will allow me to now go to the view I want. So I'm going to drag select over my graphic to zoom in a bit, and you can see if I drag this out of the way that really what I want the bookmark to look like, when I click on it. But just to talk about some of these other options really quick: fit in window will shrink down the entire page to fit into the window, fit height won't change anything because you can see that this vertically designed document, look the same when I choose fit height because it has been fit in the window as well, fit width will use as much of the window as possible to fit the width of the document, and also show the margins. Fit visible will just take away the margins of my fit width. Inherit zoom will use the magnification level the reader is using when they click or link on the bookmark. But the one I want is fit view and I'm going to select that option and drag select over my graphic to make sure that it looks pretty much the way I want it. So when I click on the bookmark that's what I'll get. Lastly, I am going to change the appearance of this bookmark so that if I create additional ones, all these bookmarks that go to graphics will look different on my list here. So I am going to give it a different style of text. I'll make it italics and I'll also click on the color swatch, to bring up the color picker and choose a different color for this bookmark. And now to test my bookmark, I will go back to my hand tool and I will click on the first bookmark and I will click on binocular perspective, the bookmark I made for my graphic. And you can see it goes right to that graphic and also notice how this bookmark, looks in the list - it is indeed a blue bookmark that is italics in text. So that's the great way really of customizing bookmarks using different view and page options. italics in text. So that's the great way really of customizing bookmarks using different view and page options.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 5
Author: Andrew J. Hathaway
SKU: 33249
ISBN: 1930519850
Release Date: 2001-08-22
Duration: 7.5 hrs / 117 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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