Setting Destination of Bookmarks

This Acro Solution with JavaScript may provide an answer. The JavaScript may have to be converted.

http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2008/10/auto_bookmark_creation

You might want to consider breaking up the large PDF so it can be packaged or used in a portfolio.

Here'd one more tutorial to check out.
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7sdbookmarks/acr7sdbookmarks.pdf

Hope this helps.

pddesigner, thank you for the suggestions. I did try the second one (from the Acrobat 7 manual), but for whatever reason I'm still not able to have a bookmark go to precisely where I want it to go, if the location to be bookmarked is near the bottom of a page. I have not tried the automatic creation using Java script, because truthfully I don't understand how to apply that to my situation. I can get any bookmark to go to the page that it is supposed to go to, but I can't get some bookmarks to go to the precise location--like a jump link--that they are supposed to on a page. Thanks again and I will contine to look for the solution, even though there may not be one yet. I had said before that I got the same problem resolved two years ago, but that was before I got Acrobat 9 Pro. Because 9 is in essence a different application than earlier versions of Acrobat, in terms of its programming code (I have been told), I may not be able to find a solution this time.

I may have a JavaScript solution but it is coded for Acrobat 8 or below. I'll see if I still have it and send it tomorrow.

Check out this knowledge base article:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2008/10/auto_bookmark_creation

Review the last entry in this post.
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=21192

Check out this tutorial - List PDF Bookmarks with a Free Script
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2007/10/list_pdf_bookmarks_with_a_free_s.php

I am having the same problem as astanton. Shouldn't there be an easier way to create bookmarks/destinations that are located at the lower part of a page without it jumping to the next page in Acrobat 9?

Version 10 Pro. (Jan 2011)

I can find no way of setting the destination of a bookmark. It does not appear under the drop down Options menuas stated in Help.
No right-click availability either. This is NOT good. There are now so many options in this version that it is becoming unfriendly to use compared with, say version 7. (I have been a user since version 3)

OK, the option exists but is not available in the particular file I have created from multiple files and where the description of each import becomes the bookmark. It appears that I am unable to quickly edit the view in the destinations.

Hi,

I have some set of PDFs that has to give bookmark. Here the bookmark will be 5 different kinds.

i.e.,
Revision Test
Weekly Test
Quartely Test
Half yearly Test
Annual Test

Bookmark will come in the different pages of the PDF. What I need here is shortcut to define the bookmarks. I tried the below javascript.

function addBookmark() {
var bm = this.bookmarkRoot;
bm = this.bookmarkRoot.createChild("Revision Test","this.pageNum=");
}


app.addMenuItem({
cName: "RevisionTest",
cUser: "Revisio&nTest",
cParent: "Tools",
cExec: "addBookmark();",
})

Bookmark is coming however, destination is not going to the corresponding page. If I click the Bookmark it remains staying at the same page. Please help me in the destination issue. Your help in this regard appreciated.

Thanks,
Arun Segar

You're not setting the page number... If you want it to point to the page you're currently viewing, change the second parameter of createChild to this:
"this.pageNum=" + this.pageNum

Hi,

Thanks Dude, it is working fine. Thanks for your timely help.

Thanks,
Arun Segar

Hi,

Here I found some issues in the sequence of the bookmarks. The sequence of the bookmarks varies from PDF to PDF. Using the below script I can't able to change the sequence.

function addBookmark() {
var bm = this.bookmarkRoot;
bm = this.bookmarkRoot.createChild("Revision Test","this.pageNum=" + this.pageNum, 0);
}
app.addMenuItem({
cName: "Revision Test",
cUser: "R&evisionTest",
cParent: "Tools",
cExec: "addBookmark();",
})
function addBookmark1() {
var bm = this.bookmarkRoot;
bm = this.bookmarkRoot.createChild("Weekly Test","this.pageNum=" + this.pageNum, 1);
}
app.addMenuItem({
cName: "Weekly Test",
cUser: "Weekl&yTest",
cParent: "Tools",
cExec: "addBookmark1();",
})
function addBookmark2() {
var bm = this.bookmarkRoot;
bm = this.bookmarkRoot.createChild("Quartely Test","this.pageNum=" + this.pageNum, 2);
}
app.addMenuItem({
cName: "Quartely Test",
cUser: "QuartelyTe&st",
cParent: "Tools",
cExec: "addBookmark2();",
})
function addBookmark3() {
var bm = this.bookmarkRoot;
bm = this.bookmarkRoot.createChild("Half yearly Test","this.pageNum=" + this.pageNum, 3);
}
app.addMenuItem({
cName: "Half yearly Test",
cUser: "Halfyear&lyTest",
cParent: "Tools",
cExec: "addBookmark3();",
})
function addBookmark4() {
var bm = this.bookmarkRoot;
bm = this.bookmarkRoot.createChild("Annual Test","this.pageNum=" + this.pageNum, 4);
}
app.addMenuItem({
cName: "Annual Test",
cUser: "Ann&ualTest",
cParent: "Tools",
cExec: "addBookmark4();",
})

Is there any option to solve the sequence change. Please suggest me.

Thanks,
Arun Segar

What do you mean, exactly? What is the problem with the sequence of the bookmarks?

Hi,

Using the already mentioned script, I can give bookmark like below:

Revision Test
Weekly Test
Quartely Test
Half yearly Test
Annual Test

If I like to change the Order of the bookmark like below not coming using the above script.

Revision Test
Quartely Test
Weekly Test
Half yearly Test
Annual Test

Because the Index value I set for the Quartely test is 2. While giving Bookmark of "Quartely Test" it is coming after the Bookmark of "Weekly Test" not after the "Revision Test" bookmark.

Thanks,
Arun Segar

I don't quite follow you... But why did you hard-code the bookmark index into the script? If you want it to add as the last bookmarks in the last, it to something like this:

var pos = this.bookmarkRoot.children == null ? 0 : this.bookmarkRoot.children.length-1;
bm = this.bookmarkRoot.createChild("Half yearly Test","this.pageNum=" + this.pageNum, pos);

Hi,

Thanks Yaar!!! Its works fine as per my request.

Thanks,
Arun Segar

Hi,

Select a text and press the shortcut key Ctrl+B in Adoble Acrobat, the bookmark will come in Navigation Tabs(Bookmark Tab). If we click that bookmark(Using Ctrl+B), the Bookmark icon and Bookmark Text got fully selected in Bookmark Tab.

However, using the below script if we give Bookmark, the Bookmark text only selected not the icon. Is this possible the icon also getting selected using the below script?

-------------
function addBookmark() {
var pos = this.bookmarkRoot.children == null ? 0 : this.bookmarkRoot.children.length+1;
bm = this.bookmarkRoot.createChild("Front Cover","this.pageNum=" + this.pageNum, pos);
}


app.addMenuItem({
cName: "Front Cover",
cUser: "FrontCov&er",
cParent: "Tools",
cExec: "addBookmark();",
})
-------------

Thanks,
Arun Segar