How to Link PDF
With users sharing more than just textual information in overly long PDF files, it might be a good idea to make accessing your content more convenient. To do this, you can add links to your PDF file.
They are a quick and easy way of letting your users move to different pages, documents, or even to external websites with related content.
To create links within your PDF using Acrobat 9 Pro:
Open the PDF file.
With the selection tool enabled, select and highlight the text, object or URL you wish to link.
Right click on your selection. Note that the text you highlight will be the anchor text for your hyperlink.
From the context menu, select Create Link.
In the Create Link dialogue box, you have options for customizing your link. Select your options for how you want your link to appear in the Link Appearance section.
- In the Link Action section, select from:
- Go to a page view - for creating simple links that will take users to another page in the file.
- Open a file - for creating a link that will open a file.
- Open a web page - for creating links that connect to the web.
Click on Next.
Depending on your link option you will be forwarded to dialogue boxes which will walk you through the process.- A) For creating page view links, set up how you want others to view the linked page. Go to the page you want linked and set your views. Click on Set Link.
- B) When linking a file, select the file from your computer. Click on Open.
- C) Enter the web page URL you want your PDF to link to. Click OK.
