PDF bookmarks

When exporting a PDF, you can choose to include bookmarks that help the reader jump quickly to important parts of it without having to scroll or search. For example, the start of every chapter of a book, major articles in a magazine, or important text or figures in a report.

Making PDF bookmarks

There are two methods for creating PDF bookmarks:

The two methods can be used together in the same document.

Managing PDF bookmarks

PDF bookmarks are a special kind of anchor and so they are primarily managed on the Anchors panel.

Any anchor can be given this special treatment, by turning on Export as PDF Bookmark when adding a new anchor or selecting the bookmark icon to its right side on the panel.

When creating PDF bookmarks from a table of contents, one will be created for every item in the table. Use the Anchors panel's bookmark icons to exclude the auto-created PDF bookmarks for any levels you do not want in your PDF. For example, if you want PDF bookmarks only for table of contents items created from Heading 1 and Heading 2 text styles.

To manually create a PDF bookmark:
  1. Select the text or object to which you want to attach an anchor.
  2. On the Anchors panel, tap New Anchor.
  3. Ensure Export as PDF Bookmark is turned on and (optionally) rename the anchor.
  4. Tap OK.
To create PDF bookmarks from a table of contents:
  1. Select the text frame that contains your table of contents.
  2. On the Toc panel, turn on Export PDF bookmarks.
To export a PDF that includes bookmarks:

Affinity's PDF (digital - small size), PDF (digital - high quality), PDF (for export) and PDF (flatten) presets are configured to include bookmarks by default.

  1. From the Document menu, select Export.
  2. Select PDF.
  3. Set Preset as required or manually choose your PDF settings. If Include bookmarks is not turned on, make it so.
  4. Tap OK.
  5. On the dialog that appears, name the PDF, navigate to where to save the PDF, and then tap Save.

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