Losing an Xref when outputting to Acrobat

Report · Apr 04, 2019

Hi -- I don't believe this is off-topic but it does involve both InDesign and Acrobat.

I have a long document that includes one spread because of the size and complexity of the graphic on those two pages. In another thread, I learned that the easiest way to include the ID spread in the eventual PDF was to a) output the whole ID doc as a series of single pages and then b) output the spread as its own PDF. Then the spread PDF can be inserted in the correct place in the stream. This works extremely well, and the handwork is minimal.

However, both my Table of Figures and Xref (see Figure 9 on page 32) link to the graphic that ID output in the stream of single pages. By deleting those two single pages and replacing them with the separately exported spread, the Xrefs to that graphic don't work. (Naturally not -- I deleted the target pages and replaced them with something else, even tho I replaced them with the same content. I understand this.)

So I'm looking for a solution where I can possibly re-link to the correct target location after-the-fact in the PDF output OR I'm looking for a better way to include that one lonely spread in the ID export to PDF so that the original links persist.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-jw

Report · Apr 04, 2019

Nedlaw wrote
By deleting those two single pages and replacing them with the separately exported spread, the Xrefs to that graphic don't work.

Yes, it's possible the xrefs are now broken; you changed the page count and possibly some of the internal references that the hyperlinks/xrefs used.

In Acrobat Pro, we can create new hyperlinks. Are you able to use that method to restore the hyperlinking of the xrefs?