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Adding bookmarks to my digital books in PDF format
Adding bookmarks to my digital books in PDF format

In this article, we show you how you can add bookmarks using Adobe tools.

Lara Macarena Sastre avatar
Written by Lara Macarena Sastre
Updated over a week ago

A bookmark identifies a location or a selection of text that is assigned a name to identify it for future reference. You can use a bookmark within a table of contents to then navigate through the different chapters.


In the store reader it will be displayed in the Table of Contents like this:

PDF files.


We show you how to do this using Acrobat InDesign, Adobe Acrobat Standard, and Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Adobe InDesign:

  • Go to Window> Interactive> Bookmarks to see the Bookmarks panel.

  • Click on the marker under where you want to place the new marker. If you don't select one, the new bookmark will automatically be added to the bottom of the list.

  • Do one of the following to indicate where you want the marker to jump:

    • Click on an insertion point in the text.

    • Select the text. (By default, the text you select becomes the bookmark label.)

  • Double-click a page in the Pages panel to view it in the document window.

  • Do one of the following to create the bookmark:

    • Click the Create New Bookmark icon in the Bookmarks panel.

    • Choose New Bookmark from the panel menu.

Bookmarks appear on the Bookmarks tab when you open the exported PDF file in Adobe Reader or Acrobat.

Bookmark management: Use the Bookmarks panel to rename, delete, or sort bookmarks.

Rename a bookmark: Click the bookmark in the Bookmarks panel and choose Rename Bookmark from the panel menu.

Delete a bookmark: Click a bookmark in the Bookmarks panel and choose Delete Bookmark from the panel menu.

Adobe Acrobat Standard

Create a bookmark

  1. Open the page you want to bookmark and adjust the view settings.

  2. Use the Select tool to create the marker:

    a. To mark a single image, click on it or draw a rectangle around it.

  1. To add a marker to part of an image, draw a rectangle around that part.

    1. To add a bookmark to the selected text, drag the cursor to select it. The selected text will be the label for the new marker. This label can be edited.

    2. Click the Bookmarks button and select the one under which you want to place the new bookmark. If you don't select any bookmarks, the new bookmark is automatically added to the bottom of the list.

    3. Choose New Bookmark from the options menu.

    4. Type or edit the name of the new bookmark.

Adobe Acrobat Pro

  1. Open the page you want to bookmark and adjust the view settings.

  2. Use the Select tool to create the marker:

  3. To mark a single image, click on it or draw a rectangle around it.

  4. To add a marker to part of an image, draw a rectangle around that part.

  5. To add a bookmark to the selected text, drag the cursor to select it. The selected text will be the label for the new marker. This label can be edited.

  6. Click the Bookmarks button and select the one under which you want to place the new bookmark. If you don't select any bookmarks, the new bookmark is automatically added to the bottom of the list.

  7. Choose New Bookmark from the options menu.

  8. Type or edit the name of the new bookmark.

Another way to do it:

  1. Open the page you want to bookmark.

  2. Drag the cursor and select the text or part of the text where the new bookmark will be directed.

  3. Right-click on the text, " Add bookmark ".

  4. Edit the name of the new bookmark if necessary. (Right-click, " Rename ")

Here is the official Adobe documentation

We hope we made this tutorial easy for you and if you have more questions write us at [email protected]

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