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Fix footnotes and note links

Check that each note cue links to its note, draw any note PDFxt missed, and rebuild the two-way links between cues and notes with Process Notes linking.

PDFxt detects footnotes, chapter-end notes and book-end notes during the analysis, tags them, and links each note cue (the superscript number in the text) to its note. In the ePUB, readers can then jump from a cue to its note and back again. Check the links on pages with notes, and if a note or a link is missing or wrong, draw the note and rebuild the links.

  1. Go to a page with notes. Note zones are labelled FN.
  2. Find the zone that contains the cue. A zone with links has a link badge at its top-right corner. Click it to see the zone's outbound links, each with its cue and the page it points to.

The 1 Outbound Link popover for a paragraph, listing cue 19 and its destination page

  1. Click the cue in the list to open Edit Link. Destination zone shows the note the cue points to.

Edit Link for cue 19, an internal link to the current page with the footnote zone 19 as its destination zone, and the FN zones at the foot of the page

Draw a missing note

If PDFxt didn't detect a note, draw it as a zone.

  1. Open Actions and choose Footnote under Add Content.

The Actions menu, with Footnote under Add content and Process Notes linking under Page operations

  1. Hold the left mouse button and drag over the note. Stay within a single column.
  2. The new zone is labelled FN on the page and appears in the zone list as Footnote. To stop drawing, click Cancel Draw.

A newly drawn note zone at the foot of the page, listed as Footnote in the zone list

  1. Repeat for every missing note on the page.

Once every note has a zone, let PDFxt link the cues to their notes.

  1. Open Actions and choose Process Notes linking, or press Shift + N.
  2. Set the Start Page and End Page. They start at the page you're on.
  3. By default, only cues with no link or a broken link are processed. To re-link cues that are already linked, for example when a cue points at the wrong note, check Reprocess all notes.

The Process Notes linking dialog for page 256, with the Reprocess all notes option

  1. Click Process. While the page is processing, edits are disabled.

PDFxt links each cue to its note, and each note back to its cue.

Check it worked

  • Each linked note zone shows a green badge with an arrow, counting the cues that link to it. Click it to see where the note is referenced from.
  • Click the link badge on a zone with cues. The outbound links list each cue and the page it points to.

The 2 Outbound Links popover for a paragraph, with cues 21 and 22 both linking to page 245 (Page 257)

If something goes wrong

  • A cue points at the wrong note. Open its link from the link badge, choose the right note in Destination zone and click Save. Or run Process Notes linking again with Reprocess all notes checked.

Watch the video

Footnotes, part 11 of the PDFxt video series.