Note: You can import PDF files, as well as many image formats, as layers. In this dialog you can choose to create a new layer (and name it), add the file to an existing layer, position it, and modify its appearance (which includes changing the Opacity and stacking order). Under Import Options, you can choose to Create New Layer (and name it) or Add to Existing Layer. In the Import as Layer dialog that opens, click the Browse button and find the file you want to use for the new layer. STEP 5 Choose a File to Import as a New Layer From the flyout menu, choose Import as Layer. Click the icon to open the panel’s flyout menu. Notice the icon in the top-left corner of the Layers panel adjacent to a down-pointing arrow. When you click the right-pointing arrow to expand the layers, you should see the name of the layer(s) you created in InDesign. Tip: If the Layers panel icon isn’t visible in the navigation pane, Control-click (PC: right-click) on the left navigation pane and choose Layers from the contextual menu.īy default, the Layers list is collapsed. This will open the Layers panel along the left side of your document. Click the Layers panel icon on the top-left side of your screen (looks like two sheets of paper). If you checked View PDF after Exporting, your PDF document will open in Acrobat. Note: We also checked Optimize for Fast Web View and View PDF after Exporting. If this option is grayed out, make sure you have Compatibility set to at least Acrobat 6 in the top-right corner of the dialog. In the Export Adobe PDF dialog that opens, check Create Acrobat Layers under Options. In the Export dialog that opens, navigate to where you want to save your file and click Save. Assume you want to add a license agreement to your file, and you don’t want a user to view the content until they agree to the terms of the agreement.Ĭreate a file in Adobe InDesign, then export it (File>Export).
You might also create documents with animation that appears on a separate layer.įor this tutorial, we’ll take a look at a creative way to add content to a layer in a PDF file. You might have a multi-lingual file that you want to distribute and have text in each language appear on different layers, with the background design appearing on a separate layer as well. Layers can be used in PDF documents in many ways. In Acrobat 9, Adobe provides us a few ways to add new layers to a PDF file. Layers needed to be created in an authoring program and exported to PDF with layers intact … until now. However, you’ve never been able to create layers in Acrobat. Adobe Acrobat has supported layered PDF documents since Acrobat 6.
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