Need help with page navigation

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Hi,

I've got a complex user guide that has multiple sections that repeat a lot of text and images.

I'd like to reduce the repetition by using cross reference links (I'm using Madcap Flare which is similar to Framemaker) to jump to a location in the book. That works for jumping to a figure or table and then returning to the original page, but if I want the user to read multiple pages in a section elsewhere in the document and then easily return to the original page that I jumped from, I can't figure out how to make Acrobat do that without a lot of "previous view" button clicks, which would be impractical.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

creative explorer · Accepted Answer

@chris_7954 for whatever reason, I thought of using 'bookmarks' versus 'cross reference links'. Bookmarks allow users to jump directly to a specific location in the document, regardless of their current position. Unlike cross-reference links, bookmarks don't require users to click "Previous View" multiple times to return to their original location. They can simply click the bookmark again or use the bookmark hierarchy to navigate back.

How to add bookmarks to PDF files:
https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/hub/learn-to-add-bookmarks-to-a-pdf.html

Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/page-thumbnails-bookmarks-pdfs.html

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