How to Hide Pages in a PDF but links on the other pages still work to that content?

Question

Hi - I have a 78 slide PPT Deck with Summary Slides (10 slides) and an Index of hyperlinks to reference slides make up a majority of the slides (remaining 68 slides). I want the exported PDF to include just the 10 Summary pages with working links to the reference pages, but I don't want the reference slides to show up in the summary pdf itself unless clicked on the link. I was on with Adobe support and they were unable to help...they said working with a javascript developer was the only way.

I find it shocking that I can't hide pages within a pdf and still keep the functionality of the full pdf.

Can anyone assist with this asap?

try67 · Answer

You can do it using a script, but it's quite complicated. You will need to define all of these pages as Templates, hide them and then spawn new copies from them when the link(s) are clicked. However, you would also need to define the rules for deleting those pages, so the file is returned to its original state.

I don't think it is really worth all the trouble just so your file appears to have less pages than it actually does... But that's up to you. It's not a trivial scripting task, though.

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