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2010-04-28 01:48:41
ghlee007
Registered: Apr 12 2010
Posts: 4

I just had to bookmark a 232 page document into 18 section with 4 subsections a piece, it felt like a very manual process?

Each section had a subsection index so I could copy and paste the titles across, then find the relevant page and set the destination.

The 18 sections were separate documents before I collated them, so it may be faster to bookmark them before collating.

Any hints how to speed this up?

Ta

Graham.

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2010-05-02 07:22:55
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Graham

You didn't mention what your used as an authoring application for the 18 individual documents.
Applications such as Adobe FrameMaker or InDesign or MS Word (using Adobe PDFMaker) support a PDF creation
process that permits creation of PDF Bookmarks from application paragraph tags / Headings.
Using this, the 18 individual PDF files would all have PDF Bookmarks in place.
Using Document > Insert Pages or Combine Files the compiled PDF would have the Bookmarks that were present
in each of the 18 component PDF files.

Some minor Bookmark clean up may be called for after use of Combine Files; but, it'd be much less than the
time intensive manual process you describe.

If you do not have the authoring files to work with than manually adding Bookmarks to either the 18 PDFs prior to creation of the single PDF or doing the job in the final, single PDF is a coin toss.

Be well...

Be well...

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2010-05-02 17:29:22
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
here are the basics for one way to do what you describe: create a one-page template file where you have defined the four subsection bookmarks (standard text for each subsection). construct each section file/document separately. use insert pages command (on document menu) to insert the template (suggest to place the one-page at end of the section file; the one page may be deleted later). this brings the template of bookmarks into the file for that section. for the section file set each bookmark's page target and other settings. do this for each of the 18 sections. give each section file a logical name, such as "section one", "section two", etc. (the file names will become the bookmark of each section.) then combine all the sections into one pdf. you'll need to do minor editing on the bookmarks (remove ".pdf").
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