Bopokmark special characters

Acrobat 5 and later FULLY support Unicode in the bookmarks. So just use Unicode for your bookmark titles and you are good to go!

Is there a way to define Unicode for just the bookmarks specifically without changing the fonts used in the documents? We support over 70 different types of manuals that use various TT, OT, Type1 fonts for up to 27 languages. We would need to change all of these templates and style guides.

Ok so how does one use Unicode in bookmarks? Does that mean making bookmarks manually by copying and pasting bookmark text from say a Word document that uses Unicode?

Right now none of the documents I work on in anywhere from 15 to 36 different languages were created using Unicode fonts so only about 11 of those language can I select text in the document and make bookmarks.

And even when I have copied Unicode text from a Word file and pasted it into a bookmark it works fine except when I want manipulate the bookmark with JavaScript then it all gets fouled up. For example I usually make bookmarks from the TOC page of the document and include the page number then I run a JavaScript that gets the page number and uses it to set the page action then delete the number from the bookmark text. This works fine for English, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Indonesian, and most of the time Samoan. I tried Russian but after running the script none of the characters showed correctly.

You might take a look at Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map (Win) or Edit > Special Characters (Mac). Open the drop down menu for font selections and locate the symbols you want to use. On Windows, click the character and click Select (or double click the character). Click Copy and paste the character in your bookmark name. On the Mac, position the I-beam cursor where you want in the Bookmark name and double click the character.ted