Creating Bookmarks in Indesign

[JVisgaitis]

Does anyone know how to create bookmarks natively in Indesign? I know you have to use the Hyperlinks window. I've been reading through the manual and following the instructions, but I can't get it to work when I generate the PDF. URL links work fine, but bookmarks to pages within the document don't. I do have the options checked when I export the PDF, but I must be missing something. I called Adobe Support, but they wanted me to pay $150 to talk to a specialist. That conversation ended pretty quick! A couple publishers I talked to said they do them in Acrobat Professional afterword, but I don't have that yet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Cergorach]

Asking here is a lot cheaper ;-)

I know how to do it in Indesign CS, i could even explain it to you, but as far as i know is that your using Indesign 2. I've worked with that as well, i don't remember making Bookmarks in ID2 and to be sure i checked an ID2 book and some net resources, as far as i can tell you can't make bookmarks in ID2, atleast not as you would make them in ID CS (upgrade as soon as possible, i find it so much better then ID2 and making the bookmarks in ID makes life so much easier).

 

[annadobritt]

I had the same trouble with InDesign 2.0. Always ended up having to add the bookmarks by hand using Adobe Acrobat. What a pain. The way you can do it in CS is excellent.

 

[JVisgaitis]

Doh! OK, so that's Acrobat Professional and Indesign CS I need to add to the Christmas list. Boy, am I stretching it. . .

 

[Cergorach]

Doh! OK, so that's Acrobat Professional and Indesign CS I need to add to the Christmas list. Boy, am I stretching it. . .

You can upgrade from ID2 to ID CS for $169, Acrobat Pro 7 is $449, but if you already own photoshop you can upgrade to Creative Suite Premium for $749 and get Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS, Golive CS, Acrobat pro 7.0 Professional, and Version Cue...

 

[JVisgaitis]

You can upgrade from ID2 to ID CS for $169, Acrobat Pro 7 is $449...

I was checking the prices this morning. Is it just me, or did these recently go through the roof? I think I paid $100 for Indesign when I first got it. I have full registered versions of all their products right before they went to the Creative Suite. At this point, I'd be pretty nervous upgrading as another Creative Suite might be right around the corner and I'd hate to get burned. I'll probably end up waiting, and get the Premium Suite when the next version comes out.

 

[JVisgaitis]

I meant to ask, what is Version Cue?

 

[Cergorach]

I don't really use it (yet), so i can't really explain how it works, this link might help:
http://store.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/versioncue.html

Usage at a glance:
* Find files fast => I usually know where i left what, so this isn't a great help, the files i can't find are usually on an ofline backup and this tool won't help a bit. But i have to admit that now that i've got a 1TB+ fileserver 24/7 at home i just might keep a copy of those backups on that fileserver (the fileserver runs in RAID5, so when a HD fails i can replace it and there will be no lost data).

* Track your edits => This might be a very usefull feature, the problem is that i don't trust programs enough to depend a 100% on them, thus i find it easier and safer to have seperate files when i find it neccessary.

* Share with confidence => Very usefull when you work in a larger team, i often don't and when i do i usually work on distinct parts of a project. The other problem is that everyone that's part of the team should have Version Cue installed and not everyone in the rpg business can afford to buy Creative Suite Premium.

In all this is an awesome application for larger publishing companies/teams, but for us small folks it's more of an hassle then a real advantage...

 

[Fast Learner]

I was checking the prices this morning. Is it just me, or did these recently go through the roof? I think I paid $100 for Indesign when I first got it. I have full registered versions of all their products right before they went to the Creative Suite. At this point, I'd be pretty nervous upgrading as another Creative Suite might be right around the corner and I'd hate to get burned. I'll probably end up waiting, and get the Premium Suite when the next version comes out.

No, these are standard Adobe prices, for a long time now. If you paid $100 for InDesign it must have been an upgrade deal. I think its lowest full retail (non-upgrade) was $499, back at 1.0.

 

[Cergorach]

No, these are standard Adobe prices, for a long time now. If you paid $100 for InDesign it must have been an upgrade deal. I think its lowest full retail (non-upgrade) was $499, back at 1.0.

Wasn't there some promo back in the day to get as many ID users as quickly as possible?