I agreeto Idea Detailed bookmarks in all Government pdf documents
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Detailed bookmarks in all Government pdf documents

Why Is This Idea Important?: The bookmarking of pdf documents: * greatly enhances a reader's ability to gain an overview of a document's scope and contents; * makes it much easier to find one's way around a document; * reduces / eliminates the need for printing and the associated cost to the reader - especially when a document makes extensive use of colored illustrations and figures - and the carbon footprint of the document. The inclusion of bookmarks to pdf files is a very simple process and takes a minimal amount of time - of the order of an hour or so for a fifty page document - that is negligible compared to the cost of writing, editing and formatting the document. The inclusion of accurate document properties, provides valuable information to search engines in addition to being useful information for the reader and enhancing the integrity of documents.

Detailed bookmarks should be incorporated in all Government reports & documents distributed as pdf files, and the files should be configured for an Initial View of 'Bookmarks Panel and Page' so that the bookmarks are immediately visible when the document is opened. In addition, accurate bibliographic information should be included in the Description section of the Document properties. At present it is rare to find a Government pdf file that includes bookmarks, and most do not include accurate/meaningful bibliographic information in a file's Document properties.

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Submitted by Robert Pollard 2 years ago

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  1. dadadata

    And make sure the PDFs are indexable by the likes of Teh Google ... not embedded jpg page images wrapped in a PDF file. Embedded page images are useless.

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