Bookmarks in InDesign

Is there any way to bookmark a graphic in InDesign? I know I can bookmark pages or text, but graphics don't seem to work. I started bookmarking the articles in the magazine I work on to make it faster to navigate. I thought I'd bookmark the ads too, but the bookmarks get lost if I move the ad (whereas the article bookmarks work even if I add more pages before them). Maybe bookmarks only affect full pages?



Also, I noticed that if I want the bookmarks to appear in a PDF they don't work unless I also enable Hyperlinks? Is something wrong, or is that just the way it works?



Thanks, Phyllis
Bookmarks in InDesign
Hi Phyllis,



In theory you can make a table of contents list of your ads by adding a non-printing text frame with a label in some unique paragraph style and grouping that with the ad so they move together. My limited experience with multiple TOCs, though, has been that only the one marked ''contents'' shows up as bookmarks in the PDF. I haven't needed to worry about interactivity so far on one of these projects, so I haven't delved deeper into it to find out why.



Peter
Bookmarks in InDesign
Interesting idea! I'll have to experiment with that.



Thanks!

Phyllis

I must admit I haven't really used the Table of Contents feature. I was just adding in bookmarks on the articles as I started working on them. I was about to watch a video on Table of Contents, but it's gone off the Adobe website (drat!). I'm going to figure this stuff out though as I always have to create an index of the ads at the end -- it'd be helpful to do that automatically somehow.



Thanks!!!

Phyllis

Create a paragraph style called ''advertiser'' or something equally informative and use it to make the tags.



MAKE SURE THE TAGS ARE SET TO NON-PRINTING. One way to do that would be to make an object style and assign the paragraph style and also set the style for non-printing in the ''text wrap and other'' section of the style definition. Make a frame, and apply the style, then put it in a library for easy duplication as you need it.



When you make the TOC, title it Index to Advertisers or whatever, then include only the advertiser paragraph style. If you need sub-groups you'll probably need to create different paragraph styles for each, and you may need to even create a separate TOC for each subgroup (you can have as many TOCs as you need) and then combine them -- I haven't played with that for a while and I've forgotten what I actually concluded about sub-groups.



Let us know what you work out.

Phyllis, you can view a list of InDesign videos here:



http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WS136D91ED-FAC8-4f4e-82A7-CF406D0131BB. html



The ToC video is here:



http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0219

Thanks!!! Okay I'm definitely going to try that out, with the object style and everything (thanks Peter!). Thanks for explaining all that. This should really speed things up in the end. :)



Bob, thanks for the video tutorial link! I never could get the TOC video to come up (it says ''video no longer available''). But I definitely want to watch the CS4 ones. I should be able to upgrade to CS4 in March (hope hope).



Thanks!

Phyllis

Okay, having played around with it on the main TOC, I can't believe I was creating this manually. I mean, it's not a long TOC or anything, but still. So much easier and more accuraet. And makes all the bookmarks. I love it. Setting up the advertiser bit is probably going to be a bigger deal, but I'm going to work on that now. With luck, I'll be working on this magazine for ages to come so might as well do it more efficiently. :-)



Funny, I explore stuff in InDesign all the time and somehow always skipped over the TOC bit.



Thanks!!!!!!!

Phyllis