This guide will help you assemble a PDF format portfolio for various career purposes, such as job-seeking, promotion, and tenure.  You may not need or use every tutorial here, but they should generally show you what's possible and can help you with specific parts of the project.

Design

Organization

Table of Contents.  You can create a dedicated Table of Contents page or pages, that include just page numbers or are actively linked to your content.  Unlike Bookmarks (see below), the Table of Contents is a page within your portfolio, wherein the items in the Table list are hyperlinked.  

Bookmarks.  PDFs can contain a table of contents or organization that exists separate of any page within the document.  In Acrobat or Acrobat reader, this typically appears on the lefthand side when the Bookmarks tool is made visible.  File names will appear as top-level headings.  With .docx files, headings will appear in their proper order and levels, but pages are not recognized.  With .pptx files, slides are listed.  The links to file names, headings, and slides in the Bookmarks list are rearrangeable, but this does not change their order, or any other content, within the files.  

Thumbnails. PDFs can contain a set of small "thumbnail" images of each page that together form a quick-navigation tool.  In Acrobat or Acrobat reader, this typically appears on the lefthand side when the Page Thumbnails tool is made visible.  This tool is probably less valuable for the reader, since the author can better recognize pages represented by the thumbnails, and only pages, rather than headings, are navigation choices here.

PDF Files: the Basics

Scanning paper documents into PDF

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Adding files to an existing PDF File. 

PDF Portfolio feature in Acrobat

In this mode Acrobat creates a PDF container that includes files in their original format.  Thus, a .pptx file is still editable (and probably extractable) as .pptx.  When viewed in Acrobat Reader, these files are still in their original format.  This could cause complications for less patient readers, since A-Reader does not automatically preview these files.  Adobe purports to include web pages, but in my test it handled https://www.canisius.edu/academics/office-academic-affairs/academic-institutes-and-centers/center-online-learning-innovation poorly.  

In short, this is too complicated for most who might read a PDF portfolio, and would result in an untenable support burden for COLI.  

Adding Page Numbers to a PDF

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