Nitro PDF Professional User Guide

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Nitro PDF Professional User Guide
8.2.3 Automatic page number links
The Create Page Links tool lets you automatically turn all numbers on an area of the page into active
hyperlinks that will link each number to the corresponding page in the document. It’s ideal for making
sections of documents, like the table of contents and index, more intelligent and easier to use. It’s simply a
matter of selecting the part of the page or range of pages you want to scan, and then running the tool to
turn them into active links.
To create page links:
1. On the Insert and Edit tab, in the Navigation group, click the arrow beneath Link .
2. Click Auto Page Links .
3. To specify the area of the page or page range to process, do either of the following:
• To scan only an area of the page, click and drag the cursor to select it, and then specify the pages to
scan
• To scan the whole page, or a range of whole pages, select the Range option, and then enter the
pages to include
4. Click the options to set the appearance of the links.
5. Click the Create button to generate the links.
8.2.4 Automatic keyword link creation
With Nitro PDF Professional you can turn every occurrence of a particular word or phrase into an active
hyperlink. For example, you could make all occurrences of your company name in your document link
through to your company web site. The Auto Keyword Link tool gives you the choice of going through each
occurrence and approving them one at a time, or you can just convert all occurrences automatically in the
one go.
Links can be set to execute a variety of actions such as open a URL or external file, go to a specific page or
named destination, or even the next instance of the word in the document.
To create keyword links:
1. On the Insert and Edit tab, in the Navigation group, click the arrow beneath Link .
2. Click Auto PDF Links .
3. In the Find box, enter the word or phrase you want to turn into an active link.
4. In the Action type list, click the action to use and then specify the action to perform.
5. In the Link properties group, click the options to set the appearance of the links.
6. To create the links, do either of the following:
• To convert all keywords to hyperlinks, click the Create All button
• To review each instance of a keyword before applying the link, click Find Next and then click Create
to turn it into a link.
7. Click Close.
8.2.5 Creating web links from URLs
The Create Weblinks tool scans your PDF for URLs and turns them into active webpage links.
To make weblinks active:
1. On the Insert and Edit tab, in the Navigation group, click the arrow below Link .
2. Click Create Weblinks.
3. Click the option to specify the range of pages to scan for links.
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