Link to a file attachment, Destinations, View and manage destinations – Adobe Acrobat XI User Manual
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Editing PDFs
Last updated 1/14/2015
Link to a file attachment
You can direct users to a PDF attachment by creating a link in the parent PDF document that jumps to the attachment.
Note: Don’t confuse file attachments with files that can be opened from a link. Linked documents may be stored in different
locations; file attachments are always saved with the PDF.
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Open a PDF that contains a PDF file attachment.
2
Go to where you want to create a link. If that location is in the file attachment, click the Attachments button in the
navigation pane, select the file attachment, and click Open.
Choose Tools > Content Editing > Add or Edit Link, and select the area for the link.
3
In the Create Link dialog box, set the link appearance, select Go To A Page View, and then click Next.
4
Set the page number and view magnification you want, either in the parent PDF document or in the file attachment,
and then click Set Link.
Destinations
A destination is the end point of a link and is represented by text in the Destinations panel. Destinations enable you to
set navigation paths across a collection of PDFs. Linking to a destination is recommended when linking across
documents because, unlike a link to a page, a link to a destination is not affected by the addition or deletion of pages
within the target document.
View and manage destinations
Manage destinations from the Destinations panel in the navigation pane.
View destinations
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Choose View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panes > Destinations. All destinations are automatically scanned.
Sort the destinations list
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Do one of the following:
• To sort destination names alphabetically, click the Name label at the top of the Destinations panel.
• To sort destinations by page number, click the Page label at the top of the Destinations panel.
Change or delete a destination
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In the Destinations panel, right-click the destination, and choose a command:
• To move to the target location, choose Go To Destination.
• To delete the destination, choose Delete.
• To reset the target of the destination to the page displayed, choose Set Destination.
• To give the destination a different name, choose Rename.
Create and link a destination
You can create a link to a destination in the same or another PDF.
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In the target document (destination), choose View > Show/Hide >Navigation Panes > Destinations. If the document
already includes a destination that you want to link to, skip to step 5.