Create PDF Bookmarks From Links Using The AutoBookmark™ Plug-in For The Adobe® Acrobat®
- Introduction
- This tutorial shows how to automatically create bookmarks from links in PDF documents using the AutoBookmark™ plug-in for the Adobe® Acrobat®. This function converts each link annotation into a bookmark. Text covered by a link annotation is used as a bookmark title. Bookmarks will have the same actions as the corresponding links. This operation can be used to convert a hyperlinked table of contents or an index into a set of interactive bookmarks.
- This operation is also available in the Action Wizard (Acrobat's batch processing tool) and can be used for automating of document processing workflows.
- Prerequisites
- You need a copy of the Adobe® Acrobat® along with the AutoBookmark™ plug-in installed on your computer in order to use this tutorial. You can download trial versions of both the Adobe® Acrobat® and the AutoBookmark™ plug-in.
- Step 1 - Open a PDF File
- Start the Adobe® Acrobat® application and open a PDF file using “File > Open…”.
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- Step 2 - Open the "Create Bookmarks From Links" Dialog
- Select "Plug-Ins > Bookmarks > Create From Links…" to open the "Create Bookmarks From Links" dialog.
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- Step 3 - Specify Processing Options
- Specify processing options. Tab leaders, page numbers, extra text lines, or duplicates spaces can be optionally removed from the bookmark titles. Optionally, specify processing page range. Click "OK" once done.
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- Step 4 - Check the Bookmarking Stats
- The dialog showing the bookmarking results will be displayed at the end of the processing. Click "OK" to finish.
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- Step 5 - Examine the Results
- The software automatically converts links in the PDF document into interactive bookmarks. Text covered by a link annotation is used as a bookmark title. Bookmarks will have the same actions as corresponding links.
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