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Organization and Navigation Elements
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Organization and Navigation
Elements
When creating documents for electronic publication, it is important to provide the reader
with a way to move efficiently through a document, as well as across documents. Acrobat
provides a variety of methods you can use for navigation, including thumbnails,
bookmarks, articles, and links. Each navigation method has its own special features. You
can choose when and where to apply each one to create a document structure and flow
that are best for your audience.
For the most efficient workflow, it is best if you implement navigation paths for your
document after your PDF document is complete in content and organization. Using the
navigation methods described in this chapter as the last stage in the workflow ensures
that you will no longer need to insert or delete pages, or perform major editorial tasks that
might cause you to have to redo navigation procedures.
Working with thumbnails
Thumbnails, located in the navigation pane, are miniature previews of the pages in a
document. You can use thumbnails to jump quickly to a selected page and to adjust the
view of the current page. Thumbnails allow you to direct the reader’s attention and to
print, move, insert, copy, replace, and delete pages. You can use the small thumbnails
option to display more pages in the Thumbnails palette.
Clicking a thumbnail takes you directly to the corresponding page. Moving, copying, or
deleting a thumbnail actually moves, copies, or deletes the corresponding page. This
makes thumbnails especially useful during the development phase of a document.
To show the Thumbnails palette:
Do one of the following:
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Click the Show/Hide Navigation Pane button
, and then click the Thumbnails tab.
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Choose Window > Thumbnails.
Creating and deleting thumbnails
Because thumbnails take up extra file space, approximately 3K per thumbnail, they are not
automatically created with a document unless you set the Acrobat Distiller option to do
so. Instead, they are created dynamically when you click the Thumbnails palette tab in the
navigation pane. Consequently, for large documents, it may take several seconds for all
the thumbnails to be drawn after you open the palette. You can embed the thumbnails
into a document so that they do not need to be redrawn every time you open the palette.
They can easily be unembedded later if necessary.