Creating PDF Bookmarks from Comments and Highlights
- Introduction
- This tutorial shows how to automatically bookmark notes, comments, text highlights, underlines and strikeouts in a PDF document using the AutoBookmark™ plug-in for the Adobe® Acrobat®. The following annotation types can be selectively bookmark:
- Highlight
- Underline
- Crossout
- Sticky note
- Text comment
- File annotation
- Popup note
- Rectangle
- Other types (such as links or various drawing annotations)
- The plug-in uses text behind each annotation or the text content of the comment for a bookmark title. The bookmarks will point to the locations of corresponding annotations. Bookmark color can be optionally inherited from the originating annotation.
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- 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 Document
- Start the Adobe® Acrobat® application and open a PDF document to be processed using "File > Open..." menu.
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- Step 2 - Open the "Bookmark Comments and Highlights" Dialog
- Select "Plug-Ins > Bookmarks > Create From Comments and Highlights..." from the main menu to open the "Bookmark Comments and Highlights" dialog.
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- Step 3 - Select Annotation Types to Bookmark
- Select one or more annotation types to bookmark.
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- Check the "Highlight" option to bookmark highlighted text:
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- Check the "Underline" option to bookmark underlined text:
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- Check the "Crossout" option to bookmark crossout text:
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- Check the "Sticky note" option to bookmark sticky notes annotations and use the comment text for the bookmark title:
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- Check the "Text comments" option to bookmark comments:
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- Check the "File annotation" option to bookmark file annotations:
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- Check the "Popup notes" option to bookmark popup notes annotations:
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- Check the "Rectangle" option to bookmark annotations in rectangles:
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- Check the "All other types" option to bookmark other annotation types (for example, links):
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- Step 4 - Specify Bookmark Processing Options
- Check the "Inherit bookmark color from annotation style" option to use annotation style color for the bookmark title.
- Check the "Determine bookmark levels from markup type (Highlight/Underline/Crossout)" option to create multiple-level bookmarks.
- Specify the number of characters to limit bookmark title length.
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- Step 5 - Start the Bookmark Generation
- Optionally, specify processing page range by clicking the "Edit Page Range..." button.
- Click "OK" to start the bookmark generation.
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- Step 6 - Inspect the Results
- Click "OK" to close the reporting dialog.
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- In the tutorial we have created 3-level (Highlight/Underline/Crossout) hierarchy bookmark tree using annotation style color for bookmark titles.
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