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July 27, 2020
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Create layer hierarchy (sublayers) in PDF

  • July 27, 2020
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I have seen some PDF documents with a layer hierarchy: a layer (folder) with sublayers. The view of each (sub-)layer can turned on and off with the 'eye-button'. We have tried different things with the adobe programs (Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Acrobat pro), but we still don't know how to make layerfolders and sublayers in pdf (which can turned on and off with the 'eye-button'). In the attachment you can find an example of this.

Can someone tell us how to create this in PDF?

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JR Boulay
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Community Expert
May 9, 2022

With Acrobat Pro it is easy to do the opposite, i.e. to put all layers at the same level.
But it does not allow to group them.

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
try67
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Community Expert
May 8, 2022

It can't be done within Acrobat itself, but it will display it if it was created like that in other applications.

Bernd Alheit
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Community Expert
May 8, 2022

It is possible in Adobe Acrobat with a plugin. 

Participant
November 4, 2024

Whats the pluigin??

Participant
May 8, 2022

Did you ever figure this out?  I am wanting to do the same thing.