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Help with generating bookmark report with Acrobat X Standard?

Camillea
Registered: Apr 28 2011
Posts: 4

Hello. My office uses Acrobat X Standard. I just finished bookmarking a large multi-PDF file document production thinking that I'd be able to easily print a list of the bookmarks since it seems like such a simple function for Acrobat to perform. Loe and behold, I come to find that it's not included in the program and typically is handled through a java script sequence.
 
Looking around on the internet and this site, I came across a blog article that gives a *.sequ file. Unfortunately, it appears that it only works for Acrobat X Pro (which my office doesn't have). Is there any way to print a list of the bookmarks in my PDF files with Acrobat X Standard?
 
It doesn't matter to me if it's neatly organized into a hierarchy and likewise it doesn't matter if it can handle multiples of files at one time, so long as I can create a single-list of the bookmarks in each file.
 
Thanks for any assistance.

thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
As it happens, I wrote that Action. If you look at the script in the sequ file (not easy because the formatting is all screwed up), you'll see that the script is driven from a function called "CreateBkmkSumFields". So if you can get it properly formatted, all the code up to the very last bit which runs the batch process, can be copied to an automation script that will work on standard.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script

Camillea
Registered: Apr 28 2011
Posts: 4
Thanks for your help thomp. =) I got side tracked onto another project but will have to give a look at that code when I have the time to get back to the one I had messaged here about.