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Inspiring
November 13, 2019
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Understanding hyperlinks in CS6 - project will be both print and PDF

  • November 13, 2019
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Hi all,

Using Id CS6 on a PC. I have a very large document, a 160-page book that until now has been sold as a printed book with a few PDFs that have no interactive features; they were merely optimized copies of the file from which the printed book was generated.

 

This is a book of maps, and the idea is to link the bottom of one map with the top of another. I have already included text boxes with page numbers to that effect, and so far I've created simple hyperlinks using them. So for example when someone clicks the PAGE 3 icon on the map at the bottom of page 2, they'll open page 3. Seems simple enough. But what I don't understand are hyperlink destinations, or if there are any shortcuts to generating these internal links within the book (or an easy way to go back). So if you jump from page 2 to page 79 (a detailed description of what's on page 2), can you easily go back to page 2 after you're done with page 79? I'm very very old-school, I don't know anything about making web pages or links, etc. I'm 100% print until now, and I realize this is all very common for most designers in 2020.

 

Related to this, do I need to generate a second master document and keep the two in synch, or can I use the same document to make the high-res normal PDF file that I sent to the printers, and an interactive low-res (and print restricted) version that I asell

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Derek Cross
Derek Cross
Community Expert
November 13, 2019

You can have simple internal and external hyperlinks but not multi-state buttons. You can put a Contents "button" on the bottom of the master page and that will help readers to navigate by taking the reader to go to the Contents page easily (presumably you have a hyperlinked Contents page).

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NJ AuthorAuthor
Inspiring
November 14, 2019

I don't actually have a contents page (maybe someday, but the nature of the publication doesn't easily lend itself to one).

 

What I'm really after is if someone is zoomed in to page 1 on their phone or tablet and they come to where the page break is, when they tap the hyperlink it takes them to a specific location on page 2, rather than page 2 in general. This is for following a route on a map. Certain lower-scale maps have links to numerous other pages, so if someone wants to follow one of 10 links on that page to a specific continuation on a different page, I'd like for them to be able to do so.

 

As it stands right now, let's say I have a hyperlink to Page 18 from page 22, when they tap it, they'll go to page 18 (at the inherited zoom level, which is what I want), but not to the specific part of page 18 where the route continues. Does this make sense? And if yes, is it doable?

 

And I'm still trying to find the answer to the second part of my original question with regards to hyperlinks embedded in the master document and how they'll print out. Will I need to create and maintain a separate document or can the master document render a PDF with links highlighted in interactive mode but not underlined or in colour for print (since the book is monochrome)?

 

EDITED TO ADD that there are probably somewhere between 500 and 750 of these jumps, so doing this efficiently is going to be key here.

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