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This month we will discuss linking. You can have two types of links, one is where you link internally within your own document or externally where you link to something like a web page. I've made my page look nice and tidy for this one just to show you a few nice tricks.
Here is how my page now looks:
What I'll do first is show you how to create a basic link to a web page. First we need to create a 'hot spot' around the piece of text that will become the link. At the righthand end of the menu bar depending on your monitor you will see either which expands to or We want the 'Insert Link Annotation' option which looks like two footprints. So click that and then draw a box around the text (or image) you want to be the link.
Now I have a PDF 'Link' box around my text, incidentally you can put this box around anything as it will always be on the top so you could surround an image and some text if you wish. Double click inside the box to get to its properties This is the Annotation Properties Window. At the moment it says the Type is 'Link', click that sown arrow and make it 'External Web-Link' this now gives a place to type in a web address so now type one in and click OK. Nothing seems to have changed but you will see later that it will create a link. But how will people know it's a link? I can tell you now that in the final PDF the reader won't know the link from ordinary text so won't know there is a link there, what I usually do is to make the text blue and underlined just to pretend it's a web link.
Double click on the text box, select the piece of text that is going to be the link, give it a color and make it underlined.
That looks more like a link you would expect to see.
Let's add a few pages to the document just to show how an internal link works. In the main menu click Page > Insert and choose to add four new pages.
So my document now has a total of five pages. I'm just going to put some large numbers on each page so we can distinguish them from one another.
So let's return to page one and put in a link that will make the reader jump to page 5.
Again, click the PDF button in the menu and choose 'Link', draw the box around some text and again double click the PDF box.
This time keep the Type as 'Link' and make the page number show as five. You'll see the page preview on the right change to show your page five. The X and Y position is to let you give the exact location on the landing page. I'm going to make each of them zero which will make the top of the PDF viewer's display area making the page display fully.
So let's give that a quick test by exporting the document to a PDF file.
In the main menu click File > Export > Save As PDF
If you see the pre-Flight Verifier window, just click 'Ignore Errors' for now, we'll go into more detail soon. If you don't see it don't panic! It means that no errors were detected! Congratulations!
That is your 'Save As PDF' now which has all the options you need to fine tune your PDF file but for now choose a save location at the top of the window then click Save.
This is my exported PDF file in Document Viewer with the active external web link, and if I click the second link:
[ it jumps to page five as expected.