NorbertWeiss_1 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 It looks like there is no way to create a PDF with bookmarks? There is no UI for bookmarks in the Export...PDF dialogs, nor are there any bookmarks in a PDF when an AP document with Anchors is exported. Seems like creating an "Index" doesn't do anything with PDF bookmarks, too. Since many printed publications are also used as PDFs available online (online increasing, printed decreasing), I'd recommend to add a feature to add bookmarks to PDF files exported from AP. Win10, AP 1.7.0.249 Tegwyn, Ewen, BarkalotDesigns and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 If you have "Include Hyperlinks" selected in the More dialog when you export your PDF, the index entries will be linked to the pages where the terms appear. (Note that you may need to scroll down to see that option; I don't know its default setting.) TOC entries will also be hyperlinked by default, I believe, and the page numbers in the TOC will function properly. Rick G 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaosmeister Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 I feel this is a must have. I can even do this with Word. A PDF without proper bookmarks is useless for my use case. I want to give affinity my cash in the future too. I am surprised because I believe PagePlus could do that at some point as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorbertWeiss_1 Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 Thanks Walt. Yes, hyperlinks do work, but no bookmarks are created in the exported PDF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 4 hours ago, NorbertWeiss_1 said: Thanks Walt. Yes, hyperlinks do work, but no bookmarks are created in the exported PDF. I think this is a matter of semantics, Hyperlinks are different from Bookmarks in a PDF. As I understand it a Bookmark is something I add to the PDF you send me, they are after publication for me to be able to find where I was perviously reading the book. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 54 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: As I understand it a Bookmark is something I add to the PDF you send me, they are after publication for me to be able to find where I was perviously reading the book. This is more how eBooks work, rather than PDFs. You can't create a bookmark in most PDF readers yourself, only by using software such as Acrobat. Normally Bookmarks are used to take you to various sections, items or chapters within a PDF. Hyperlinks can also be used to link to external items. Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 6 minutes ago, PaulEC said: Normally Bookmarks are used to take you to various sections, items or chapters within a PDF And that is what I use them for, I put them in myself as I find something I know I will refer to later as I read the (fine) manual. Haven't used Acrobat for probably eight to twelve years now. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Both QuarkXPress & InDesign can create bookmarks automatically. Well, it's a bit more faffing about in ID. But both applications can create them from hyperlinks. Often made from a TOC to jump to specific chapters or pages. The below was created from the TOC automatically when the PDF was created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Pages offers to create those too ... Add bookmarks to your document in Pages Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 1 hour ago, MikeW said: both applications can create them from hyperlinks Wouldn't it be more logical to create them from anchors? You could have a property on the anchor to "export as a bookmark" if you want it to show up in produced PDFs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 BTW, FrameMaker has also very powerful PDF bookmark & tags creation options ... FM - Configure Bookmarks and Tabs Create Rich PDF Output from FrameMaker ... (video) Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimWelch Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 MS Word's Export to PDF does this as well. It will automatically make PDF Bookmarks (in the correct hierarchy) for all "header" styles (H1-H6 etc). This is a critical feature for those of us making/publishing to PDF documents. Tegwyn and BarkalotDesigns 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarkalotDesigns Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Indeed, the possibility for the Table of Contents to generate PDF bookmarks from the paragraph style would be an appreciated addition to Publisher. erwik and derrickmg 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen B Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 I am currently working my way through Publisher by recreating existing projects. By doing this I find I can learn quickly to adapt my old workflows to the new tool and at the same time learn about Publisher's advantages and (as of now) shortcomings. Structuring a document is there, using this structure tree (or parts of it) as PDF bookmarks seems to be missing. This and some more or less advanced options like how the PDF should appear when opened would be really appreciated. Example: I do a lot of PDFs that are usually built for high quality printing, but are first viewed on screen and often kept as an on-screen reference. PDF settings for those include "View as single page", which helps flicking though pages, and "Show bookmarks", which really helps navigating the chapters and important pages or paragraphs. As of now, these settings need to be done in my very vintage Acrobat pro, individually for each exported PDF. Quote Designer, Photo & Publisher on macOS and an iPad pro with Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFO Jay Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Just chiming in to say that PDF bookmark creation is a must for me too. I make PDFs for customers to browse on their computers as well as being printed, and offering bookmarks are a key part in helping customers navigate a document. Turning a ToC into bookmarks is just a checkbox in InDesign, it'd be great if it was similarly easy here. Fixx and Tegwyn 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimWelch Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 For the time being, I'm using this tool to import bookmarks into my PDFs. I make a text file with the bookmark title, level, and page and then insert it into the PDF after I generate it. https://www.pdflabs.com/blog/export-and-import-pdf-bookmarks/ Additionally, FoxIt (free) PDF viewer allows you to create bookmarks using a UI. GunnarRoxen and Tegwyn 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegwyn Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 (edited) Chiming in to agree. PDF bookmarks representing the various headings of my project are an absolute must for my use case. Adding them automatically in Publisher (based on TOC or paragraph styles or even anchors, though that would be more tedious) would be much easier than inserting them after the fact in another program. Edited August 23, 2019 by Tegwyn JimWelch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weregazelle Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 I also want to to chime in here and note how important I feel this feature is. Publisher completely outdoes the previous program I used for laying out my documents in basically every regard except for this. I would love to see support for adding/exporting Bookmarks for pdfs added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaosmeister Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 It's been several months and not a peep from what I can tell from Affinity. I am disappointed. Given the current situation I am still forced to use third party tools to finalize my projects. It adds substantial workload too as I do books with a lot of bookmarks in them. I wish I had saved my money and instead went for a year of ID :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 2 hours ago, Chaosmeister said: It's been several months and not a peep from what I can tell from Affinity. I am disappointed. Generally Serif does not comment on Feature Requests. They read them, and factor them (and the user discussion that occurs) into their planning, but that is all that usually occurs. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaosmeister Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Generally Serif does not comment on Feature Requests. They read them, and factor them (and the user discussion that occurs) into their planning, but that is all that usually occurs. Thank you for letting me know. I was hoping there would be a blog post or road map or some indicator what they were working on. Mainly I am just frustrated because I had a workflow with PagePlus8 that worked and now I have to do manual extra work, time I'd rather spend creating things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllanP Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 +1 for including a feature to generate PDF bookmarks in Affinity Publisher when producing a PDF version of your document. I know the free Foxit PDF Reader allows you to create/edit/delete book,arks in a PDF document, but I haven;t had the opportunity to try it on a PDF generated by Affinity Publisher. It would be very desirable to do all the associated tasks with APub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnarRoxen Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 +1 for bookmarks for PDF roleplaying games it is an essential and mandatory requirement for both the users and stores like DriveThruRPG.com Tegwyn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafvert Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 I also agree that adding bookmarks in exported pdfs is a crucial feature, as they make navigating longer more technical documents so much easier. All my many years working in InDesign with design specs and storyboards I've used bookmarks in 80% or so of the documents I've produced. Preferably I'd like the bookmarks to be linked to styles, so they can be generated automatically based on for example section headers etc. But ideally there would also be a way to modify bookmarks (usually delete one or two) manually. Having to add all bookmarks manually would not be a great solution to me, but I guess still better than not having any bookmarks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PONTHIEUX Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Still don't have in 1.8 ?!?Adding bookmarks in exported pdfs is a crucial feature. Please next release ! erwik 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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