PDF documents and breadcrumbs

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uRko
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PDF documents and breadcrumbs

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Hello.

I am wondering if there is a preferred way to implement breadcrumbs in PDF documents in Help+Manual? When there are many child topics, users can easily get lost in the documentation.

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Uroš
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Re: PDF documents and breadcrumbs

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Hi Uroš,

In PDF the user has both the print-style table of contents with active hyperlinks at the beginning of the document and the PDF Reader's "Bookmarks" table of contents as well, displayed in the sidebar. So additional breadcrumbs would be redundant. :)
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Re: PDF documents and breadcrumbs

Unread post by BertholdL »

Hello Uroš,

In the Adobe Acrobat Reader the "Bookmarks" Table of Content (in addition to the first function of breadcrumbs: navigation) contains even the second function of breadcrumbs (orientation), answering the question "Where am I?": It has the button "Search for current bookmark"
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