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Check spelling in bookmarks?

arblaw
Registered: Oct 15 2007
Posts: 19

Is there a way to spellcheck your bookmarks?

If not, that would be a great new feature.

arblaw
Registered: Oct 15 2007
Posts: 19
So I guess there's no way to spell check you bookmarks? (other than manually?)
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Not really. You could use a batch process to copy the bookmarks to another PDF and then run spell check. Here is the documentation link to the sample batch sequences that can do this:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/batch_sequences.pdf

You might also check some of these third party bookmark products but it didn't look as though they offered spell checking.
http://www.acrobatusers.com/articles/2007/02/bookmark_options/

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

arblaw
Registered: Oct 15 2007
Posts: 19
Thanks, lkassuba.

The ability to spelcheck bookmarks would be a really handy feature. I often prepare PDF's of medical records and other technical materials and end up with lots of bookmarks, many of which have complex spellings. I hate it when I get one all done up and sent out to my clients and then discover misspellings in the bookmarks.
milliemoon
Registered: Mar 5 2009
Posts: 2
Is there any way of spell checking all text in a pdf?
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
milliemoon,

From Acrobat Help

Quote:
You can spell-check the text you add in note comments and form fields. However, you cannot spell-check the text in the underlying PDF.
Spell check of the underlying text needs to be done by the author of the document prior to publishing the output PDF.

A web search may identify third-party plug-ins/applications that provide spell check of the uderlying text.

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